Dr. Wang Hwa-young of SCOS, was appointed as an assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University
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- 2023-09-04
Wang Hwa-young, a graduate of our university's Confusion Studies and Eastern Philosophy, was appointed in July as a philosophy assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University in China.
After completing her studies and PhD, Wang received her Ph.D. in May 2018 from the University of Binghamton, New York, with the theme of "Confucianism and Rituals for Women in Chosn Korea: A Philosophical Interpretation of Confucian Rites." Afterwards, he was appointed as a research professor at Sungkyunkwan University, a post-doctoral researcher at Georgetown University and Emory University in the U.S., and a philosophy assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University, established in July 2023.
She participated in the BK21 project from the master's course, was selected as a BK21 scholarship student, studied as a visiting research student at Oxford University for a year, and since her doctoral course, she has been presenting research papers at various domestic and foreign conferences. Over the past five years, she has published four papers in A&HCI-level international journals such as The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Asian Philosophy, and has actively published academic papers at domestic and foreign academic conferences. As part of the Korean academic translation project, the entire collection of Korean female neo-confucianist Lim Yoon-jidang and Kang Jeong-ildang was jointly translated with Professor Philip J. Ivan Ho, and was recently published by Oxford University Press as Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: Essential Writings of Im Yongjang and Gang Jeongildang.
Even after her appointment at Duke Kunshan University, she plans to introduce the original text of Korean Confucian philosophy plant in areas and make efforts to develop in-depth research, modern reinterpretation, and comparative philosophy and humanities through various studies on Confucianism, women, Confucian ritual(li).