Christine Kim is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and a faculty affiliate of UBC’s Asian Canadian Studies and Asian Migration program (ACAM). She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Literature (2020-25). Before joining UBC in 2020, she taught at Simon Fraser University where she was a founding co-director of Simon Fraser University’s Institute of Transpacific Cultural Research. Her research and teaching interests lie in Asian diaspora, the Cold War, imperialism, and race.

She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War (Duke UP, 2025), examines cultural representations of North Korea as they coalesce around Western fantasies of the inhuman. Christine is working on a new project that examines literary and filmic representations of Korean diasporas and migrations within illiberal spheres.

• “Figuring North Korean Lives and Human Rights.” The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique. Ed. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Guy Beauregard, and Hsiu-Chuan Lee. Philadelphia, Rome, Tokyo: Temple University Press, 2020. Asian American History and Culture series. 217-32.
• “National and Global Decolonial Practices.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 40.5 (2019): 547-63.
• Christine Kim and Christopher Lee. “Inter-referencing Asian Canadian Studies: Imagining Diasporic Possibility Outside the (Canadian) Nation.” Inter-Asia Journal of Cultural Studies 20.2 (2019): 302-13.
• With Helen Leung (ed). Inter-Asia Beyond Asia. Special issue of Inter-Asia Journal of Cultural Studies 20.2 (2019).
• The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016. The Asian American Experience series.
• “The Smell of Communities to Come: Jeremy Lin and Post-racial Desire.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 35.3 (2014): 310-27.
• “Intimating Asias, Postcolonial Possibilities, and the Art of David Khang.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies15.1 (2013): 24-37.
• With Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer (ed). Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity in Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. TransCanada Series.