기억과 기록: 한국영미문학페미니즘학회 30년

Abstract

This paper explores the 30-year history of The Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KAFSEL), focusing both on core research topics—feminism, gender, and sexuality—and on the intellectual performance of feminist scholars in English Literature. Established on September 5, 1992, KAFSEL held monthly workshops from 1992 to 1997, the highlight of the association’s intellectual activity. Feminist Studies in English Literature (FSEL), the journal of the association, was first published in June 1995. “The Location of Feminist Studies in English Literature,” the first international conference, was held on November 5-6, 1999, and in 2000, FSEL assembled an international editorial board. FSEL was listed in the MLA bibliography beginning in 1999 and in the British Library Catalogue beginning in 2000. In December 2003, a journal exchange between FSEL and AALA (The Asian American Literature Association) in Japan was launched. KAFSEL has tried to broaden and strengthen the FSEL Global Network by leading a discussion of feminism, gender, and sexuality in Asia and around the world, with the ultimate goal of publishing an international journal. In addition to the dissemination of feminist intellectual discourse, the history of KAFSEL should be remembered as the record of a passionate, collaborative, and devoted group of Korean feminist scholars amidst the larger intellectual feminist community in Asia. As we face the transformative wave of feminist studies in Korea, KAFSEL should take on new challenges in addressing questions of membership and the thematic agendas that will define this unique research field, both in the present and future.