FORMAL EDUCATION
Ph. D. Graduate Theological Union, Christian Spirituality, 2008
M.A. Seattle University, Christian Spirituality, 2001
B. A Ewha Women’s University, Sociology, 1985
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2016-present Associate Professor in Religious Studies, Holy Names University
2010-2016 Assistant Professor in Religious Studies, Holy Names University
Teaching responsibilities include core courses in Humanity and
Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies Across Cultures
2005-2009 Adjunct Faculty at Holy Names University and San Francisco
Theological Seminary
2003-2005 TA at Graduate Theological Union
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Asia Pacific Spirituality and Social Justice
Biblical Spirituality
Spirituality in Globalization: Immigration, Refugee, and Poverty
Discourse on Spiritual direction
Inter-Spirituality
Global Religious Life
Psychoanalysis of Jacque Lacan
FIELD RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Aug Teach Summer Course in Jesuit School, Vietnam.
2022 June Representative of US in Synodal Gathering UISG, Rome, Italy.
2021 Aug Teach Summer Course for Religious Men in Vietnam through Zoom
2021 Jan International Union Superiors General Theology Forum in Rome
through Zoom.
2020 Nov Women’s Spirits Workshop for International Women’s Circle
through Zoom
2020 Aug Teach Summer Course for Jesuit Theology in Vietnam through Zoom
2020 July International Women’s Wisdom Workshops through Zoom
2019-present Teaching on Women’s Spirituality at Chongaram institute in Korea,
through Zoom
2019 Aug Teaching Summer Course at Jesuit Scholarsticates Saigon, Vietnam
2019 July Public Lectures on Christianity and Feminism Seoul, Korea
2019 July Field research in Jeju Island Peace Movement Jeju Island
2019 June Study of Cross-Culture Turkey
2019 Jan Field research on Human Trafficking Bang Kok, Thailand
2018 Aug Workshop on Publishing Articles in Academia in Vietnam
2017 July Workshop on Discernment in Vietnam
2017 Field research on Buddhism in Thailand
2012-2018 Field research on JeJu Shamanism
2010 June-Aug Field research on Body Ritual in South Korea
2006 May-Aug Field research on Korean Shamanism in South Korea
2004 June Research on Asian women’s theology, Institute for Advanced
Study of Asian Cultures and Theology Conferences, Hong Kong
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Speech “A Prophetic Living on the Margin,” in Video Series of Religious
Life Today, “Let’s Get Real”
2021-now Peer Reviewer for Review for Religious
2020-now Youtube station on women’s spirituality, “Sophia’s Attic.”
2020 Seminar on the Tutti Fratelli through Zoom ( America, Korea, and
Peru)
2020 Inter-congregational Formation Lecture Series Project Committee:
funded by Hilton Foundation.
2019-now Peer Reviewer for Quest: Studies on Religion and Culture in Asia
2018-now Writing Columns at www. Catholic News. Co. Kr
2018-now Administrative team of Feminist Consultation group, Mission and
Global Church group, and Transnational Catholicity group at CTSA
2018 Sixth Sunday of Easter Preaching at Catholic Women Preach
http://catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/05062018
2015-now Doctoral Students dissertation committee at GTU
2014-now Editorial board of Journal of Body and Religion (online journal)
2014-now Editorial Board of Presence
2014-now Asia Pacific Peace Studies Institute: Bay Area & American Studies
Consortium Fellow
2013-2016 Board Member at Spiritual Director International
2012-2014 Writing Column on Spirituality at www. Catholic News. Co. Kr
2012- Administrative Team on Asian Theology at CTSA
2012-2018 Steering Committee on Body and Religion at AAR
2012 Steering Committee on the Religious Life conference, Santa Clara
University
2008-2012 Dissertation advisor to Doctoral students at San Francisco
Theological Seminary
2007 Steering Committee on Teaching Spirit conference, Graduate
Theological Union
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2022 Aug “Spiritual Abuse” in Korean Catholic Theological School, Seoul.
2021 Aug “Women and Spiritual Direction” Hospitality Group in Korea.
2021 July “For a Newer Humanity,” Woori Theological Institute in Korea.
2021 Apr. “Dancing with the Other,” and “Love: Learning and Unlearning for
Justice.” the North West Religious Formation Conference/
National Religious Vocation Conference through Zoom.
2020 Dec “Global Citizenship Education and Religious Social Responsibility,”
Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens 2020 through
Zoom.
2020 Oct “21st Global Religious Life,” PBVM workshop through Zoom.
2020 June “Interlaced Dynamics of Justice in the Time of COVID 19,” Sisters of
Living Word Congregation through Zoom.
2019 June “Transnational Catholicities: Faith and Popular Culture in Global
Dialogue” in CTSA, Pittsburg.
2019 Jan “Behold, Women Religious in 21st Century,” in Woman
Wisdom in Action Symposium, Bang Kok, Thailand.
2018 June “Grace as Flow in Global Catholic Church” in CTSA, Indianapolis.
2017. Nov. “Intercultural Spirituality: Dancing with the Holy Spirit,” in Center
for Consecrate Life, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.
2016. Oct. “Jeju Shaman’s Ritual as the Liminal Space.” In Jeju Sum Culture
Institution Symposium. Jeju Island, Korea.
2016. Sept. “Conversation at the Well” in Religious Formation Conference,
Chicago.
2015 Oct. “What is at the State is Paradise” in Consecrated Life Conference,
Long Beach.
2015 Aug. “Border Crossing Spiritual Life: Religious Life” in Giving Voice
National Gathering, Kansas City.
2014 Aug. “Spiritual Exercise in Daily Life” for CLC in Pittsburg.
2014 Jun. Spirituality and Social Justice in Catholic News Paper Guest
Lecture Series, Seoul, Korea.
2013 Apr. “Exploring Consecrated Life as a Cross-Cultural Vocation,” in
Women of Faith Series of Lecture in LA Archdiocese
2013 Mar. “From In/Enculturation to Interculturation,” in Living the Spirit
of Vatican II at HNU panel, Oakland, CA.
2012 Mar. “Religious Life: Liminal, Border-Crossing, and Hybrid.” Sharing
the New Wine Conference, Santa Clara University, CA.
2012 Mar. “St. Clare: Woman of Today,” Medieval Association of the
Pacific, Santa Clara University, CA.
2011 Nov. “Complex Religious Identity in Contemporary Korea,” Harvard
Divinity School, MA.
2011 Jun. “Two Indian Women Saints” and “Immigrant Narrative,”
Catholic Theological Society of America.
2008 Jun. “The Galilean Jesus: Creating a Borderland at the Foot of the
Cross,” Catholic Theological Society of America.
2007 Nov. “Between Memory and Hope: Reading Psalms as Reconstructing
Identity,” American Academy of Religion.
2006 Feb. “Response to Mark Massa on New Anti-Catholicism,” Catholic
University Association.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
2022 To Wounded Humanity상처받은 인간성에게 ( Seoul: Hanbit Biz).
2022 Journey toward East; Journey toward West: A Postcolonial Woman’s Reading on Thomas Merton (New York: Palgrave McMillan).
2121 Joy of Life 생의 기쁨 (Seoul: Yellow Brick).
2020 The Seasons that I loved 내가 사랑한 계절들 (Seoul: Yellow Brick, 2020).
2019 Conversations at the Well: Emerging Religious Life in the 21st Century in the
Global World (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock).
2018 Loss in Transformation 슬픔을 위한 시간 (Seoul: Yellow Brick, 2018).
2018 Editing the volume and Writing Introduction and Chapter 1 in Interreligous
Pedagogy: Reflections and Application in Honor of Judith Berling ( New York: Pal Grave McMillan).
2016 Border Crossing Spirituality: Transformation in the Borderland (Eugene,
OR: Wipf & Stock).
2015 Thoughtful Chatting: How Women Experience Transformation through
Storytelling 사려 깊은 수다: 여성은 이야기를 통해 어떻게 성장하는가
(Seoul, Korea: Yellow Brick).
2014 Beauty of the Broken 부서진 것의 아름다움 (Seoul, Korea: Marianist).
2011 A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience: Creating a Hybrid Identity
Constructing a Borderland Community (New York: Peter Lang).
Book Chapter
2020 “An Intercultural Spirituality: Dancing to the Rhythm of the Spirit,” in
Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life Today,
eds. Maria Cimperman, RSCJ and Roger Schroeder, SVD (New York:
Orbis).
2017 “The Eating Ritual in Korean Religiosity: Young San Jae for the Dead and
the Living,” in Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death,
and the Afterlife, Material Worlds Series, ed. Candi Cann (Lexington,
KT: University Press of Kentucky, 2017).
2017 “A Reflection on Contemplation and Social Justice in a Global Era,” in Ain’t
Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Stories of Contemplation and Justice, ed. Therese Taylor-Stinson (New York: Church Publishing, 2017).
2014 “Social Justice: Its Definition and Methodology 사회적 영성의 정의와
방법론,” in Social Spirituality 사회적 영성, ed. Kim Jinho (Seoul, Korea:
Hyeon Am Co).
2014 “Cross-Cultural Spiritual Direction: To Construct a Borderland,”
Embodied Spirituality, ed. There Taylor-Stinson (New York: Church
Publishing).
2011 “Jesus of Minjung on the Road to Emmaus (Luke: 24: 13-32): Envisioning Post Minjung Theology, “in Jesus of Galilee: Contextual Christology, ed. Bob Lassalle-Klein (New York: Orbis).
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journal
2022 “Invitation to Reflect on Inclusion and Transformation,” Horizon. Vol. 47
(Summer, no. 3):27-28.
2022 “After the Solemn Journey of Lent,” Sojourner, May.
2021 “Beyond Anxiety and Hatred: New Humanity,” Catholic Review, Vol. 33 ( Fall
2021): 27-34.
2021 “Intercultural Spirituality,” Horizon, Journal the National Religious Vocation
Conference, Vol. 46, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 7-11.
2020 “Body without Head: Lacan’s Understanding of Body and Its Application,”
Body and Religion, Vol. 4-1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.17782.
2019 “Listening Not in Spiritual Direction: A Lacanian Inkling,” Presence: an International Journal of Spiritual Direction, no. 2, vol. 25 ( June).
2018 “Spirituality in the Era of Globalization” 글로벌시대의 영성 in Catholic
Review 가톨릭 평론no. 18, vol. 6.
2017 “ Hidden Stories of Women, Be Flower! 숨겨진 여성의 이야기, 꽃이
되어라,” Catholic Review 가톨릭 평론 . Vol. 5-6, No. 9: 24-34.
2016 “A Deconstructive Reading of Luke 15: 8-10,” Asian American Theological
Forum. Vol.3, No. 3.
2015 “Dancing in the Middle Space: An Invitation to Mutual Transformation,”
The Occasional Papers, LCWR., Winter, 2015.
2013 “Toward Cross-Cultural Spiritual Direction: When Feeling Is Caught in
a Pattern,” Presence, An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, Vol.
19, No. 1 (March).
2010 “St. Clare-Women of Today: Revisited Theme of Apostolic Freedom,” Theology and Thought, vol. 30, no. 2 (June).
2010 “Cross Cultural Spiritual Direction: Dance with a Stranger,” Presence, An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, vol. 16, no. 1 (March).
2009 “The Galilean Jesus: Creating a Borderland at the Foot of the Cross (Jn. 19: 23-30),” Theological Studies, vol. 70, no. 2 (June).
MEMBERSHIP
American Academy of Religions
Catholic Theological Society of America
Spiritual Directors International
Asia Pacific Peace Studies Institute
AWARD
2022 49th Alumni Award of Best Teaching Faculty at Holy Names University
2013 Irene Woodward Endowed Professorship at Holy Names University
2006 Best Teaching Award, Graduate Theological Union
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