English PhD alumnus Sunghyun Jang now teaching at Korea University

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Sunghyun Jang, who received his PhD in English in 2013, was recently hired in a tenure-track position at Korea University.

Dr. Jang’s dissertation, entitled “The Arbitrary Power of Language: Locke, Romantic Writers, and the Standardizers of English,” was completed under the supervision of Professor Judith Pascoe. Since completing his PhD work, Dr. Jang has been employed as a lecturer at Seoul National University and at Yonsei University. In his first semester as an Assistant Professor at Korea University, Dr. Jang is teaching an undergraduate class on 19th-century British Poetry and a graduate class on Victorian Poetry.

The Department of English is part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.