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About Leslie Hickman
I am a graduate student in the anthropology department at Emory University, where I study otherness and othering in the context of South Korea. I hold an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University and a translation certificate from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.Leslie Hickman is a translator and writer who earned her MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University. On Twitter.
NBN Episodes hosted by Leslie:
February 21, 2026
Victimhood Nationalism
Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitim…
January 7, 2026
Against the Chains of Utility
Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2025) explores literary texts that…
September 8, 2025
Constructing Student Mobility
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popul…
July 29, 2025
Hidden Heros
Hidden Heroes (Anthem Press, 2025) offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans through a collection of short stories b…
April 19, 2025
Polarizing Dreams
Gangnam is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured South Korean pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of …
February 12, 2025
Civic Activism in South Korea
Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in July…
October 28, 2024
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
Dr. Dennis Wuerthner’s Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is the first complete English translat…
June 8, 2024
Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes
In this beautiful new book, Dr. Youngna Kim draws on her vast understanding of Korean art to provide an overview of the peninsula’s contemporary art s…
March 27, 2024
Out of Place
Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the larges…
January 30, 2024
The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea
Dr. Andy Jackson’s The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) examines an unexplo…
August 28, 2023
K-pop Dance
K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (Routledge, 2022) is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social me…
August 5, 2023
Flower of Capitalism
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) det…
July 5, 2023
Surviving Squid Game
In Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars (Applause Books, 2023), scholar Suk-Young Kim reflects on Netflix's mo…