Christine Kim is Associate Professor and editor of the journal Canadian Literature. 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 a founding co-director of Simon Fraser University’s Institute of Transpacific Cultural Research and a faculty affiliate of UBC’s Asian Canadian Studies and Asian Migration program (ACAM).

• “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.