An Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Jiwon Shin is working on a book project entitled Intimate Objects: The Circulation of Literature in Late Chosôn Korea, 1771– 1844. This study examines the cultural power of circulation in the making of literature, focusing on the effect that Chinese vernacular novels had on the development of literary prose in Korea during and immediately following the period when the Korean court imposed a ban on the official import of Chinese novels. Shin’s fellowship at the Townsend Center is supported by funding from the Koret Foundation.