Peter Yoonsuk Paik

Associate Professor

Room: Curtin Hall, Room 786
Phone: (414) 229-6299
e-mail: pypaik@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf 183kb

Degree:

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999

Current Research Interests:

Theology
Science fiction, anime, and the graphic novel
Political philosophy
World cinema

Current Teaching Interests:

Apocalypse and the Experience of the Extreme
Theology and the Political
Tragedy and Theodicy
Evil in Literature and Film

Other Relevant Activities:

Co-organizer (with Patrice Petro and Marcus Bullock), "Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, Diaspora," an Interdisciplinary Conference sponsored by the UWM Center for International Education, Hefter Center, UW-Milwaukee, April 22-24, 2004
Organizer, Korean Film Weekend, at UWM Union Theater, UW-Milwaukee, April 18-21, 2002.

Recent Publications:

Forthcoming Book: From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

"The Pessimist Rearmed: Zizek on Christianity and Revolution." Theory and Event. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Forthcoming.

"Smart Bombs, Serial Killing, and the Rapture: The Vanishing Bodies of Apocalyptic Imperialism." Postmodern Culture. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, September, 2003.

"Poetry as Perjury: The End of Art in Broch's Tod des Vergil and Celan's Atemwende. "In Hermann Broch: Visionary in Exile - The Yale Broch Symposium, 2001. Edited by Paul Michael Lützeler. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2003.

"Tarkovsky's Apocalypse and the Image of Time," Religion and the Arts. Leiden: Brill, Winter 1999.