Publications

518 Democratic Uprising Archive, Gwangju, South Korea, 2019

Publications

Karp, Melissa. “‘Let me be dust’: Memory Beyond Testimony in Gwangju, South Korea.” Sites of Reckoning, special issue of Memory Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, 2023, pp. 546-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231162329

Karp, Melissa S. “Futility and Fantasy of the Intellectual Collaborator.” Forthcoming in Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, 2026.

Karp, Melissa S. “Exhuming the Collaborator.” Forthcoming in boundary 2, vol. 53, no. 2, 2026.

Selected Presentations

Karp, Melissa S. “Caves, Ghosts, and Mirrors: Atmospheric History in South Korean Memorial Museums,” MLA Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 9-12 January 2025.

Karp, Melissa S.“Reading Occupation through Memorial Museums in South Korea and France.” ACLA Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, March 14-17, 2024.

Karp Melissa S. “Liquidation or Contamination?: Ch’inilp’a in South Korean Museums and Film.” MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024.

Karp, Melissa. “‘The betrayal of a myth’: Intellectual Collaborators in Colonial Korean and Tunisian Literature.” AAS Annual Conference, Honolulu, March 24-27, 2022.

Karp, Melissa. “The Commissioner’s Mistress: The Collaborator as Cultural Imaginary in South Korea.” AAS Annual Conference, Virtual, March 21-26, 2021.