A. Articles published before 1990

1) Piers Plowman: A Quest for Meaning
Journal of English Language and Literature
(English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Seoul)
Vol. 31 No. 3 (Autumn 1985)

2) The Fall of Satan and the Harrowing of Hell: Literary Preludes to Milton
Journal of English Language and Literature
(English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Seoul)
Vol 32 no. 3 (Autumn 1986)

3) Virtue Called Ungratefulness: a Reading of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
and other Renaissance Texts
Journal of English Language and Literature
(English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Seoul)
Vol. 33 No. 4 (Winter 1987)

4) Some Recent Critical Approaches to Gray's `Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
Journal of English Language and Literature
(English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Seoul)
Vol. 34 No. 4 (Winter 1988).

5) Some American Critical Approaches and the Study of Literature in Korea
Journal of the American Studies Association of Korea
Vol. 18 (January 1987)

6) Korean Prospects: some Thoughts on Recent Directions in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with Reference to a Far-Eastern Context
The Renaissance Bulletin
(The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo)
Vol. 13 (1986)

7) Suffering, Trust and Hope in English Renaissance Literature
The Renaissance Bulletin
(The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo)
Vol. 14 (1987)

B. Articles published after 1990

1) Shakespeare's Monsters of Ingratitude  The Shakespeare Review (Shakespeare Association of Korea) Vol 17 (1990)

2) (Published in Korean) Shakespeare's King John (link to English text) Sogang Yongmunhak 3 (1991)


3) Shakespeare's Perceptions of Pain  The Shakespeare Review (Shakespeare Association of Korea) 23 (1993)

4) Romantic Love as Fiction and as Life  Medieval English Studies (The Medieval English Studies Association of Korea) 1 (1993)  Read a Korean translation.

5) Chaucer and Religion Yong-mi Mun-hak-ui Chon-t'ong (Studies presented to Professor Lee Gun-sop, Ewha Womans University (1994)   Read a Korean translation.

6) Death in the Bible and Death on the Renaissance Stage Ko-jon.Renaissance Drama (The Korean Association for Classic and Renaissance Drama)
Vol. 2 (1994)

7) Parodic Ambitions: Preludes to Faustus and Macbeth Medieval Studies (The Medieval English Studies Association of Korea) 3 (1995) pages 147-165

8) Patterns of Fractured Discourse in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale Medieval Studies (The Medieval English Studies Association of Korea)
4 (1996) pages 175-189

9) Shakespeare and the Culture of Doubt The Shakespeare Review (The Shakespeare Association of Korea) No.30 Spring 1997 pages 89-106

10) From Cardiff to Canaan: R.S. Thomas and Geoffrey Hill Hyondai Yongmisi yongu (Studies in Modern British and American Poetry)
(The Modern British and American Poetry Society of Korea) 2 (1997) pages 5 - 29

11) Madmen in the Forest: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer Yongmunhwakwon yongu (Studies of English Languages & Cultures) (Seoul National University Center for the Study of English Languages and Cultures) 5 (1997) pages 37 - 65

12) Without Metaphysics: The Poetry of Phillip Larkin (Published in Korean) Sogang Yongmunhak (Seoul: Sogang University English Department Graduate School) Volume 8 (1997) pages 1 - 28. Reprinted in Hyondae Yongmisi kaekwan (A Survey of Modern British and American Poetry) published by the Korean Association for the Study of Modern British and American Poetry. Seoul: Hanshin 1999 pages 356 - 386.

13)  Multiple Tales in Multiple Voices: English Fiction and Poetry since 1990 in Tamnon ui chilso (Orders of Discourse) (A volume of essays on English literature, mostly in Korean). Seoul: Munye Publishing (1998) pages 305 - 348

14) How should we be teaching English Literature? Published in Korean in Ankwa ppak (In/Outside: English Studies in Korea) no. 7 1999.

15) Narratorial Strategies in British Fiction of the 1990s  in The Journal of English Language and Literature Volume 45 No. 4, Winter 1999 pages 955 - 968

16) The Good, the Bad, and the Holy : Reading the Canterbury Tales  in Medieval English Studies Volume 7 (1999)  pages 63 - 92

17) So Many Tales Untold: Eloquent Silences in the Old English Canon  in Medieval English Studies Volume 8 (2000)  pages 61 - 76

18) Toward a Medieval Architectonics: Reading Wells Cathedral  in Medieval English Studies Volume 9 No. 1 (June 2001)  pages 155 - 188

19) Vitality of Literature (in Korean translation) in Munhak ui Saengmyongnyok. Seoul. (2002)  pages 3 - 16

20) Troilus and Criseyde: The Hidden Influence of Chaucer's Reading  in Medieval English Studies Volume 10 No. 2 (June 2003)  pages 153 - 168

21) From Classical Rome to the English Renaissance: The Development of Christian Culture Portrayed in Four Recent Books in Literature and Religion Volume 8 No. 2 (March 2004) pages 219 - 240.

22) Telling the Time in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale given at the 5th Fu Jen Medieval Conference, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan in March 2004 (too brief to publish in print)

23) The European Fortunes of Petrarch in Italian Language and Literature (Korea) Vol. 15 (December 2004) pages 223 - 242

24) Echoes of Boethius and Dante in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Volume 12 No. 2 (December 2004) pages 393 - 418.

25) 'Unacknowledged Legislators': Prophetic Poets from Chaucer to Today in Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature (In honour of Young-Bae Park). Seoul: Thaehaksa. (2005) pages 283 - 308.

26) Hamlet's novel ways of being a short paper presented at a conference in Taiwan and at the ELLAK meeting in July 2005 (expanded into the following published paper)


27) Hamlet at the Crossroads: Aristotelian Themes of Choice and Virtue in Shakespeare's Hamlet  in: Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 21  Winter 2005 pages 11 - 20 (College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)


28) English Literary Education in a Diasporic Age. What? How? and Why? English Language / Literature / Cultures in the University Curriculum A paper presented at the summer 2005 Conference of the English Lanaguage and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) on June 29 2005 at Onyang.


29) Thoughts on Retiring  A Personal Essay published in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Vol. 15 No.1  (2007)


30) What Shall We Do with the Middle Ages?  in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Vol. 15 No.1  (2007) 


31) On the Mystery of Meeting  A “Farewell Lecture” given for the Humanities Research Institute, Sogang University, on March 22, 2007


32) Time in Poetry East and West presented on May 12, 2007, at the 2007 International Conference of the Korean Society for Philosophy East-West


33) No Greater Pain: The Ironies of Bliss in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in  Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture. Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes. Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 2007.  pages 117 - 132.


34) A Pilgrimage of Faith : The Earlier Poetry of Geoffrey Hill  in Literature and Religion, the journal of the Korean Association for Literature and Religion, Volume 12 No. 2, Winter 1007, pages 257 - 278.


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Articles on various aspects of Korean culture, mainly literature and translation

(Links in the titles give access to the full English text of articles)

1. Ku Sang: Authenticity and Commitment
in Korea Journal (Korean National Commission for UNESCO)
Volume 29:3 1989 pages 23-33

2. The Poetic Vision of Kim Kwang-kyu
in Transactions (Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch) 66 (1991)

3. Ko Un's Hwaom-kyong: A Modern Korean Pilgrim's Progress
in Transactions (Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch) 70 (1995)

4. 'The Foreignness of Language' and Literary Translation
in Journal of English Language and Literature
(The English Language and Literature Association of Korea)
Special Number 1996

5. Translation in Practice: A Comedy of Errors
in Munhakkwa ponyok (Yonsei University Literary Translation Study Center)
1996

6. Methodologies of Poetry Translation: Translating Shin Kyong-nim's Mokkye-changt'o
in Hanguk munhakui Woiguko ponyok
Seoul: Minumsa 1997

7. Translating the Korean Novel
in In Other Words (The Translators Association)
Winter - Spring 1997 no 8/9 pages 72 - 4

8. From Korean History to Korean Poetry: Ko Un and Ku Sang
in World Literature Today
Volume 71 No. 3 Summer 1997 pages 534 - 540

9. Translating Korean Literature: The Reality (in Korean)
in Pen kwa mun hak (Korean PEN)
No. 42, Spring 1997

10. Translating Korean Poetry
in the review Modern Poetry in Translation (King's College, London)
Volume 13 (1998)

11. A Well-Kept Secret: Korean Literature in Translation
in Pictorial Korea

12. Poetic Diversities: Social Dimensions of Korean Poetry
in Language, Culture and Translation: Issues in the Translation of Modern Korean Literature. Centre for Korean Studies, School of East Asian Studies, Universiy of Sheffield. 1999.

13. The Poetry of Shin Kyong-Nim
in Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, 1999.

14. So Chong-Ju and Ko Un: Much Ado About Something
in The Korea Times, June 6, 2001

15. Literary Translation from Korean into English: A Study in Criteria
in Translation and Literature,.University of Edinburgh. Volume 11, Part 1 (Spring 2002) 72 - 87

16. Translating and the Translated : Putting Korean Literature on the World Scene
(published in a Korean translation) in the Korean monthly review Munhak Sasang (Literature & Thought) March 2004. pages 154 - 164

17. Translating Korean fiction into English: theory and practice
A talk given at an international conference on Korean Language Education and Korean Literature across the World, organized by the Kookmin University Language Research Institute, Kookmin University, Seoul on November 19 2004. Not likely to be published.


18. Pain and Truth: A pilgrimage with some Korean poets
in Kyoto Journal, 60, July 2005  


19. After Frankfurt : Globalizing Korean Literature Continues
(published in a Korean translation) in Munhak Sasang (Literature & Thought) December 2005. pages 299 - 305


20.  Songs for Tomorrow: Korean Poetry.  A talk / poetry reading given in Kyoto (Japan) at the invitation of the editors of Kyoto Journal, January 22, 2006.


21. The publication of translations of Korean literature in English. A presentation given at the start of a discussion at a conference on translation in Ewha Womens University, Seoul, in mid-2006.


22. Book review of : Hahn, Moo-Sook, And So Flows History, translated by Young-Key Kim-Renaud. Review published in Acta Koreana Volume 9 Number 2 (July 2006. Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea) Pages 202 - 211

23. Translating Korean Literature. A short text for the Changbi Weekly Commentary, a blog run by the Korean publishing company / review. Available online in Korean translation


24. Translating Modern Korean Poetry. A paper presented at the 1st World Translators' Conference "Korean Culture in Europe: Achievements and Prospects" organized by LTI Korea, held in Seoul September 13-14, 2007.


25. Translating Literature in the 21st Century. A paper presented at the Fall 2007 Conference of the 21st century English Language and Literature Association of Korea held in Joseon University, Gwangju, September 15, 2007.


26. Buddhist-Christian perspectives in Korean poetry.  An essay published in the Autumn 2007 issue of The Japan Mission Journal (Tokyo: Oriens Institute for Religious Research) pages 204 - 216.


27. The Joys of Translating: A lecture given to the Korean Open Cyber University on December 15, 2007.


28. Korean Patriot and Tea Master: Hyodang Choi Beom-Sul (1904-1979)  in the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture (Dongguk University, Seoul), Volume 10, February 2008. pages 59 - 86


29. Translating Contemporary Korean Poetry and Evaluating Translations. An expanded essay based on a presentation given during a translation workshop at Seoul National University in the summer of 2008. Not published.


30. Spatial Limitations in the Translation and Globalization of Korean Poetry. A paper given at the 2008 Manhae Festival, published in Korean in the journal Siwa Simunhak

31. The Perfect Translation: Impossible Dream. A paper presented at a conference about translation held in Dongguk University, Seoul, November 29, 2008, and quoting portions of the previous text.


32. Medievalism and Joan Grigsby’s The Orchid Door, in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 17, No. 1 (2009) pp. 147-167.


33. Ko Un’s Maninbo : History as Poem, Poem as History, in World Literature Today, January / February 2010 pp. 43-46.


34. Ko Un in the English-Speaking World. A report presented at the symposium marking the completion of Ko Un's Maninbo in Seoul Press Center, April 9, 2010)


35. Two Korean Tea Classics Compared: Yi Mok’s ChaBu and Cho-ui’s DongChaSong. Published in: Comparative Korean Studies Vol. 18 No. 1 (2010) Pages 7-34


36. A review of John Holstein's A Moment’s Grace: Stories from Korea in Translation. Cornell East Asia Series 148. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University. 2009. First published in the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, (2011) pages 95 – 101.


37. An interview about Translating Korean Literature in the online review Asymptote (Summer 2011)


38. The Early Years of the RASKB: 1900 - 1920 in Transactions of the RASKB, Vol. 85, 2010, 131- 149

         39. Tea in Early and Later Joseon  in Transactions, Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, Vol. 86, 2011,  119-142.

         40. The Poetic Work of Ko Un: Comparing the Incomparable in  Comparative Korean Studies (The International Association of Comparative Korean Studies) Vol. 20, No. 1, April 2012, pages 365-413.

44. Translating Korean Poetry: History, Practice, and Theory.  European Journal of Korean Studies Volume 18, No. 2 (2019), pp. 153–166

45. Poetry in Translation: Live Sparrow or Stuffed Eagle?   A paper read at Hanyang University, Seoul, on May 25, 2019

46. Translation: Connecting the World, Promoting Peace   Opening Address at the International Literature Festival held in Kathmandu (Nepal) December 27-29, 2019.

47. Park Nohae: Poet Militant, Poet Inspirational. An essay in the April issue of Asymptote.

         48. Brother Anthony Translates: the PDF file of a Powerpoint used for a lecture to RAS Korea on December 8, 2020. Or view the video  It covers in 1 hour most of my translating activity over 30 years.

         49. A History of Korean Literature, mainly Fiction, in English Translation. The text and Powerpoint slides and the Video of a Zoom presentation for our Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies given on June 10, 2021.

         50. Modern Korean literature as seen by a translator. Video. This lecture was a part of the SNU Kyujanggak Summer Workshop 2021 and its release was approved by the SNU Kyujanggak ICKS.

          51. The Foreignness of Language and Literary Translation. A retrospective essay on reaching the age of 80. Published in The Journal of English Language & Literature. (ELLAK). Vol.68 No. 1  March 2022. Pages 193-208

          52.  Long Forgotten Stories of Translation: Part One & Long Forgotten Stories of Translation Part Two   (About Islamic translations of Greek philosophy etc after visitng Cordoba & Toledo late in 2018)

          53. Korean Literature: its Translation into English. An unpublished paper