Hosu Kim
is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and affiliated
faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the College of
Staten Island and Critical Social Psychology program at the CUNY
Graduate Center. Her first book, Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea: Virtual Mothering,
published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2016. It examines South Korea’s
transnational adoption practice with a focus on the material, affective,
and discursive processes of becoming birth mothers. She is currently
exploring material processes and cultural practices of social repair at
the sites of state and imperial violence in South Korea and Staten
Island. Her research interests include transpacific critique of
Asian/Asian America, disability studies and critical university studies.
Her work appears in Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry, Adoption & Culture, Body and Society among many others.
