Representing transgressive sexualities

Kim is co-founder and chief co-editor of /thirdspace/. She completed her PhD in April 2007. Her dissertation is called Negotiating the Spaces of Adultery: Domesticity and the Feminist Adultery Narrative and is an exploration of 4 contemporary adultery novels by women. She is currently an instructor in the Women's Studies department at the University of British Columbia, Canada, teaching Women in Literature. Her research interests include women's writing, contemporary Canadian and British literature, nineteenth-century literature, feminist literary theory, pop culture, cultural theory, film theory, and art history.

Originally Swiss, I've just finished my PhD in Leeds, UK, and have started a research job back in Switzerland but spend half of my time here in Leeds because it's my home and "commuting" between Switzerland and the UK is reasonably easy. My research interests are around sexuality, more specifically historical constructions of sexualities, femininities and masculinities in modern Switzerland. My PhD research has used the unification of Swiss Criminal Law to examine the reformulations of sexualities such as same-sex desire, young people's sexuality and the regulation of "mentally deficient" people in relation to national identity. Following on from that I'm now working on a project that looks more closely at eugenics, national identity and the regulation of sexuality.

I am a Ph.D. student in French Studies at Brown University. I completed my undergraduate work in Women's Studies at Smith College, and plan on integrating my background in feminist scholarship with my studies of gender and sexuality in the 19th century French novel. I am originally from Chicago and have spent a significant time studying and traveling abroad.