Julie Chun Kim
Assistant Professor
Julie Chun Kim received her PhD from the Literature Program at Duke University in 2005. She also received a dissertation fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and spent the 2004–5 academic year in Philadelphia.
In her current book project, “Consumer Anthropology: New World Foods and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Empire,” she examines the relationship between descriptions of New Worlds foods and attitudes towards racial and cultural difference in eighteenth-century Britain, North America, and the Caribbean.
Her teaching and research interests include early American literature and culture, eighteenth-century European literature and culture, postcolonial literature and theory, Asian American studies, the history of anthropology, science studies, and food.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4323
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 259
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <juliekim@english.ufl.edu>