Jessica Morgan-Brown

Jessica Morgan-Brown

First Name: 
Jessica
Last Name: 
Morgan-Brown
Title: 
PhD Candidate
Biography : 

Jessica Morgan-Brown’s research focuses on the effects of global imperialism(s) on language, focusing particularly on the Korean peninsula in the first half of the 20th century. Morgan-Brown uses the concepts of translanguaging and linguistic register as frameworks through which to look at the common mixed script and mixed language writing practices of authors in colonial Korea. She is also interested in the mythology of han’gŭl and the debates surrounding its standardization during this same time period. For her dissertation project, she is doing an in depth investigation of language in the works of Ch’oe Hyŏnbae(최현배), Pak Sŭngbin (박승빈), Choi Chŏnghŭi (최정희), Kim Saryang (김사량), Mirok Li (이미륵), Younghill Kang (강영흘), Seu Ring Hai (서영해), Dan Tirinaro/Jŏng Sa-sŏp (정사섭), Ĝong Mun ĝu/Hŏ Jŏng-suk (허정숙), and Im Ĉol Aj/Im Ch’ŏl-ae (임철애).

Awards

• 2023 Kyujanggak Junior Fellowship, at Seoul National University

• 2023 CSK Travel Grant

• 2023 SGS Research Travel Grant

• 2022 Man Family Graduate Scholarship in Asian Studies Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

• 2022 Richard Charles Lee Student Leadership Award Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

• 2020 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (2020-2023) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

• 2020 Korea Foundation Graduate Fellowship (2020 - 2025) Centre for the Study of Korea

Publications

• Kiaer, Jieun, Jessica Morgan-Brown, and Naya Choi. Young Children’s Foreign Language Anxiety: South Korea in Focus. Multilingual Matters: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching. (Multilingual Matters: 2021)

• Choi, Naya, Taeyeon Kim, Jieun Kiaer, & Jessica Morgan-Brown. "Mothers’ Educational Beliefs and Preschoolers’ English Learning Attitudes: The Mediating Role of English Experiences at Home." SAGE Open 10, no. 4 (2020): 2158244020970231.

 

Education: 
MA, University of Toronto, East Asian Studies
MSt (Distinction), University of Oxford, Korean Studies
MA, Brigham Young University, Linguistics
BA (Hons), Missouri State University, English Literature

People Type:

Areas of Interest: 
  • Linguistic Imperialism
  • Translanguaging
  • Linguistic Register
  • Han’gŭl, Chŏngŭm
  • Korean literature
  • Colonial literature
  • Late Capitalism
  • Digital Capitalism

Program:

Dissertation Supervisors: 
Janet Poole
Presentations: 
“Expanding the Borders of Late Colonial Korean Literary and Political Legitimacy: Writing Korea Outside Korea(n). in (Im)Mobility in Korean Language, Literature, Culture, and Media. 2026 Modern Language Association Convention. Toronto, ON, Canada, January
“The interplay of poeticism and social critique in Dan Tirinaro’s La Liberpoeto.” Esperanto in Asia Conference. The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong and online, August 2024.
“Literacy Campaigns, Media, and Gender in Post-Liberation Korea.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2023. Boston, MA, USA, March 2023.
“Early Childhood English Education in South Korea: Problems and Prospectus.” 2nd International Conference on Young Language Learners (YLL). University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, July 2016. [co-author Jieun Kiaer]
"A Diachronic Analysis of North and South Korean Monophthongs: Modern Vowel Shifts on the Korean Peninsula.” 19th International Circle of Korean Linguists ICKL) and 16th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (Harvard-ISOKL) joint confere
Administrative Service: 
Secretary, East Asian Studies Graduate Student Union (EASGSU), 2018-2019.
Vice-President, East Asian Studies Graduate Student Union (EASGSU), 2021-2022.
CUPE Steward, East Asian Studies Graduate Student Union (EASGSU), 2022-2024.

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