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Dr Hyei Jin Kim

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Hyei Jin Kim Photo

Specialisms

  • History of Anglophone Publishing, 
  • International Organisations, 
  • Book Trade Associations

Location

Edith Morley building room 265, Whiteknights campus

Dr Hyei Jin Kim is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Henley Business School.

She studies how international organisations and trade associations shaped the international trade of English-language books in the 20th century. Her current Leverhulme-funded project investigates the Traditional Market Agreement, a British publishing monopoly that carved up the world book markets between British and American publishers from 1947 to 1976.

Previously, Hyei Jin was a research assistant on the European Research Council-selected and UK Research and Innovation-funded project LITAID: Decolonization, Appropriation and the Materials of Literature in Africa and its Diaspora, based at King's College London. She holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford, where she examined the role that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists (PEN) International played in publishing world literatures in English translations.