Cynthia Ji Hyun Shin

Ph.D. candidate | Indiana University Bloomington | Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies |
Room 662, 1020 E Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405 | cynshin@iu.edu | @cynshin.bsky.social

EDUCATION
Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D., Germanic Studies (Fall 2021-Present)
Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy, May 2023
Dissertation (tentative): “Rogue Codes: On the Representation of Artificial Lives”
Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Fall 2019-Present)
Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy with Distinction, September 2023
M.A., Comparative Literature (Fall 2019-Spring 2021)
M.A. Project Paper: “Which Weird Witches? Four Rewritings of Shakespeare’s
Macbeth”
Dartmouth College
B.A. Comparative Literature, High Honors, 2019
B.A. Philosophy, Honors, 2019

ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Speculative Fiction | Exophony (writing in a language that is not your mother tongue) | Translation
Studies | Rewritings and Tradaptations | Posthumanism | Video Game Studies | East German Cinema

PUBLICATIONS
✤ Shin, Cynthia. “Hands On! Bertolt Brecht Bloomington Karaoke Theater’s Der Hofmeister.” Ecibs:
Communications of the International Brecht Society, International Brecht Society, 30 Dec. 2023, e-
cibs.org/issue-20232/#shin.
✤ So-yeon Kim, “From A Mathematician’s Morning: Three Poems.” Translated by Cynthia Shin.
Asymptote, no. Jan 2023, https://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/a-mathematicians-
morning-kim-so-yeon/.

RESEARCH
Grants and Awards
✤ Zantop Graduate Student Travel Award, 2024 (Women in German)
Awarded to support dissertation research in Germany and Austria
✤ East Asian Studies Center Travel Award, Fall 2023 (Indiana University)
For ALTA 2023
✤ WisCon POC Outreach Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2023
✤ Comparative Literature Departmental Travel Support, Summer 2023 (Indiana University)
For WisCon 2023
✤ E. O. Wooley Award, Spring 2023 (Indiana University)
Awarded to outstanding graduate student in Germanic Studies

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 ✤ Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Award, Spring 2023 (Indiana University)
Overall promise on the basis of GPA, breadth of interests, originality, academic
achievement.
✤ Institute of German Studies Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2022 (Indiana University)
Project title: “Depiction of the Foreign in German Cinema: A Comparative Study of
Doris Dörrie and Werner Herzog”
✤ Gilbert V. Tutungi Prize, Spring 2022 (Indiana University)
Best MA paper submitted in the previous calendar year
✤ College Arts and Humanities Institute Graduate Conference Travel Awards, Fall 2022 (Indiana
University)
For MLA 2022
✤ Transnational Research Fellowship, Summer 2022, (Indiana University)
For research on German Shakespeare translations and adaptations
✤ Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Award Fall 2021 (Indiana University)
For ACLA 2021
✤ Geduld Award for Comparative Drama 2019-2020 (Indiana University)
Paper title: “Which Weird Witches? Three Sisters in Japanese Translations of Macbeth”
✤ Flanigan Award 2019-2020 (Indiana University)
Paper title: “Museum as Mausoleum: Nabokov and Spekter Walk into a Museum…”
✤ Max Kade Fellowship 2019-2020 (Indiana University)

Academic Conferences
✤ IU Comparative Literature Johnston Colloquium 2023
Paper title: “Manifesto: Translation in the Age of AI”
✤ American Literary Translators Association Conference 2023
Panel title: I, We, Who? Subject’s Place in Translation
Paper title: “I, We, Who? In Search of the Subject in Yoko Tawada’s Stones (2017)”
✤ Women in German 2023
Panel title: Keep Weimar (Cinema) Weird
Paper title: “The Artificial Eve in the Weimar Cinema through Sylvia Wynter”
✤ WisCon 2023
Panel title: Monk, Murderbot & Posthumanism: Wells & Chambers
Paper title: “"Robots, AIs and Human Praxis”
✤ IU Comparative Literature Graduate Conference: Forget-me-not 2023
Paper title: “Women, Plants, and Decolonization: Stories of the Future Past”
✤ IU Germanic Studies Graduate Conference: End of the Wor(l)d as We Know It 2023
Paper title: Beginning of an End in Dath’s Die Abschaffung der Arten and Kim’s “On the
Origin of Species”
✤ Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention 2022
Panel title: Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability
Paper title: The Biopolitics of Robots: Life and Death of a Posthuman Disobedience

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 ✤ Modern Language Association Convention 2022
Roundtable title: Shakespeare and the Politics of “Tradaptation”
✤ Association of Asian Performances Conference 2021
Panel title: Japanese and Chinese Performance Practices
Paper title: Which Weird Witches? Japanese Rewritings of Shakespeare’s Macbeth
✤ American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2021
Seminar title: On-Screen Identities: Body in Film and Digital Media
Paper title: “‘Coming at you live, real, real wild’ - Virtual Bodies of K/DA”
Nominated for Horst Frenz Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
✤ Modern Language Association Convention 2021
Special session: Problematizing National Cultures in Modern East Asian Literatures
Paper title: “Transnational Literature of Tawada and Bae: Readers of the World”
✤ IU Ilinca Zarifopol Johnston Memorial Colloquium 2020
Paper title: “Female Voices in Contemporary Korean Short Stories: Translating Kim
Soom and Hwang Jung-eun”
✤ German Studies Association Conference 2020
Emerging Scholars Workshop: “German Studies, Hyperlinked!”
✤ American Comparative Literature Association 2020 [CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19]
Seminar title: “Rethinking Modernity Through Transculturality”
Paper title: “Transnational Literature without Nation”

Invited Lectures
✤ Nerd Cultures: Japanese Sci-Fi in Translation (March 22, 2024), on translation in Japanese
science fiction, funded by Japan Foundation New York, organized by IU Bloomington East Asian
Studies Center, Bloomington, IN.

Workshops and Other Collaborative Projects

✤ Translating Cultures: When There is No Pronoun in the Source! (September 27, 2023),
translation workshop on Yoko Tawada, organized by IU Bloomington East Asian Studies Center,
Bloomington, IN.
✤ DEFA Summer Film Institute - Hidden Figures: Blackness and Black Experiences in East
Germany (June 11-17, 2023), organized by DEFA Film Library, UMass Amherst, MA
✤ Thinking with Lauren Berlant: Graduate Student Virtual Seminar (May 24, 2023), organized
by University of Alberta, Canada, online

TEACHING
Indiana University, Bloomington
Associate Instructor, Germanic Studies Department (2023-2024)
✤ GER-G 200: Intermediate German (Instructor of Record), SP24
✤ GER-G 100: Beginning German (Instructor of Record), FA23

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Associate Instructor, Comparative Literature Department (2020-2023)
✤ CMLT 216: Science Fiction and the Western Tradition (Instructor of Record, Self-Designed),
SP22, FA22, SP23
✤ CMLT 151: Introduction to Popular Culture (Instructor of Record, Self-Designed). FA21
✤ CMLT 147: Images of the Self: East and West (Instructor of Record, Online, Self-Designed),
FA20, SP21

SERVICE
American Literary Translators Association
✤ Member, Membership Committee, 2024-2025

Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

✤ Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2022-2023
✤ Committee, IU Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference, 2022-2023
✤ Committee, IU Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference, 2020-2021
✤ Leser Lecture Organizer for IU Germanic Studies, 2019-2020

Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington

✤ Member, Translation Committee, 2023-2024
✤ Co-Chair, Student Advisory Board, 2023-2024
✤ Union Representative, 2022-2024
✤ Academic Coordinator, Student Advisory Board, 2021-2023
✤ Organizer, IU Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, 2022-2023
✤ Graduate Affair Representative, 2020-2021
✤ Social Coordinator, Student Advisory Board, 2020-2021
✤ Committee Member, IU Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, 2019-2020

Graduate and Professional Student Government, Indiana University Bloomington

✤ Representative for Comparative Literature, 2020-2022
✤ Member, Diversity Council for IU Student Government, 2019-2020
✤ Fall Award Committee, IU Student Government, 2019

LANGUAGES
Korean (native); English (near native); Japanese (fluent); German (advanced); French (reading
knowledge)

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Comparative Literature Association
German Studies Association
Women in German

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