Samuel Park

Literature

Samuel Park is an assistant professor of English at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches courses in the Literature program. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His research focuses on ethnic American literatures, with a particular emphasis on Asian American. His dissertation, “The Performance of ‘Race’ in Asian American Drama” examined the intersections of minority discourse and drama as genre. His recent publications include the book chapter “All the Sad Young Men: Whiteness as Melancholic Haunting,” forthcoming in the anthology Contemporary Black Cinema: Critical Methodologies, Routledge Press; the book chapter “The Enchantments of Whiteness: Racial Melancholia in Ira Sachs’ The Delta,” in the anthology Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys: Twentieth Century Representations of Male Beauty, Cambridge Scholars Press; and scholarly reviews in Theater Journal, Shakespeare Bulletin, and others. Dr. Park is also the author of the novel Shakespeare’s Sonnets, published by Alyson Books, and the writer-director of the short film of the same name, which was an official selection at film festivals in San Francisco, Seattle, Albuquerque, Philadelphia, and Zurich’s Pink Apple LGBT Film International Film Festival.

Office Location: English Department, 300-W, 3rd floor, 33 E. Congress

Office Phone: 312-369-8229

Email: spark@colum.edu

Mailing Address:
Samuel Park
Department of English
Columbia College of Chicago
600 So. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605