Heinz Insu Fenkl HEINZ
INSU
FENKL
 Associate Professor, Department of English
SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Dr., JFT 714
New Paltz, NY 12561
845.257.2743 (o) / 845.257.2720 (dept.)
fenkli@newpaltz.edu

Courses

Creative Writing 1
Folklore & Mythology
Great Books of Asia
Contemporary Asian Film
Buddhist Literature

(old ISIS info here)

Fiction

Memories of My Ghost Brother
Glossary
Spectator interview
Image from a Stolen Camera

Surgical Mercy
Song Bird
Fairytale version of Song Bird (abridged)
How Master Madman Came to Ch'ing Feng Temple
Illustration for "Master Madman" by The' Nguyen

Princess P (13 pages from my graphic-novel-in-progress colored by Bella

Korean Studies

Dancing on Knives: A Brief Introduction to Korean Shamanism
Image from a Stolen Camera: An Autoethnographic Recursion
Asian American Literature and Korean Literature: Common Problems and Challenges from a Segyehwa Perspective
The Future of Korean American Literature
Korean Folktales Page

AZALEA: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (with my translation of Lee Chang-dong's "The Dreaming Beast")

Translations

Korean Folktales

"Autumn with Piano" by Hwang Sun-won
"Twilight" by Hwang Sun-won
"Record of a Consummation" by Yi Sang (translated with Walter K. Lew)
"Looking for the Elephant" by Jo Kyung Ran, in Words Without Borders (4 weeks on the Harvard Bookstore BESTSELLER list!)

NORTH KOREAN COMICS
 (these are excerpts from 200-page books)

Great General Mighty Wing

The Crystal Key

My introduction to GREAT GENERAL MIGHTY WING is featured in the ezine, WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, here.
A co-translation of BLIZZARD IN THE JUNGLE is featured in the February 2009 issue of WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS here.
Covers of some other comics from the DPRK

SOUTH KOREAN COMICS (manhwa)

Eastern Comics gallery -- Korean manhwa from the 1980s in the U.S.

Edited Volumes

Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction

Co-edited with Walter K. Lew

Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America 1903-2003

Co-edited with Jenny Ryun Foster and Frank Stewart

Miscellaneous

Mu: a reflection on shamanism and synthesis
Haunting: on memory and place
Folkroots Columns for Realms of Fantasy reprinted in The Endicott Studios Journal of Mythic Arts (essays below are on this main page with others):
           The Blindman's Daughter
           American Dreamtime
           Aliens and Angels
           The Binary Serpent
           Caduceus
           Fathers and Sons
           Fox Wives and Other Dangerous Women
           Heaven and Hello
           The Mermaid (my most popular essay, probably because it discusses the origin of the Starbucks logo)
           Of Men and Mud
           The Secret Alchemy of Dr. Seuss (an analysis of The Lorax)
           Storytelling and Healing
           The Owlglass & the Moon of Gold: Tyll Eulenspiegel and Kim Seon-dal


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