Sung Kap Yang
Yang, Sung Kap, a founding member of the ASLE-Korea since 2001, teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at Yosu National University in Yosu, South Korea.
My inquiries lie in Romantic Literature, nature writing, and environmental literature, and my published works cover British writers like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dylan Thomas and American Writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne.
My recent scholarly interest focuses upon how to establish ecocentric consciousness by means of literature, especially poetry. As a visiting scholar in English Department at UNR in 2004-05, I studied Dylan Thomas’s poetry from the perspective of ecological writing and the cultivation of eco-consciousness.
I am the author of the books, Heaven and Winds and Stars and Poems: The Complete Poems of Yun, Dongju (Seoul: Woo-young, 2003) and English Poetry in the Cinema (Seoul: Woo-young, 2003).
My recent essays are "Shelley's Ecological Vision"
(The Journal of English Language Literature, 2003), “A
Reinterpretation of Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’:
Rite of Passage towards Eco-consciousness” (Literature and Environment,
2002), and “Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ from the Perspective
of Bakhtin’s Dialogic Imagination” (The Journal of English
Language Literature, 2002), among others.