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Jin Y Park Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy & Religion Philosophy and Religion

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Jin Y Park
(202) 885-2919 (Office)
CAS | Philosophy/Religion
Battelle-Tompkins 118
Office Hours (Spring 2023)
Tuesday 2:00-4:00 pm
Degrees
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook; MA, New York University; MA, Yonsei University; BA, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)

Bio
Jin Y. Park is a Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religion at 艾可直播 University. She also served as the Founding Director of the Asian Studies Program from 2013 to 2020. Park specializes in East Asian Buddhism, Buddhist and comparative ethics, intercultural philosophy, and modern East Asian philosophy. Her research focuses on gender, violence, the politics of discrimination, and narrative philosophy. Marginality has been a consistent theme in her work, addressing the marginalization of the non-West and non-Western philosophy, women鈥檚 philosophy, and alternative forms of philosophizing. Her scholarship seeks to reveal power structures in philosophy and aims to amplify the voices of those at the margins.

Park currently serves as President of the 艾可直播 Academy of Religion and President of the North 艾可直播 Korean Philosophy Association. She previously served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy from 2018 to 2019.

Park鈥檚 research in Buddhism focuses on the Zen and Huayan schools of East Asian Buddhism, with particular attention to issues of language, violence, and ethics. In her comparative studies, she engages Zen and Huayan Buddhism alongside postmodern thought in Continental philosophy, with a special focus on Jacques Derrida鈥檚 deconstruction.

Park鈥檚 research on modern East Asian philosophy explores the emergence of philosophy in East Asia and the East-West encounter during this period.

In her monograph Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist-Postmodern Ethics (2008), Park discusses Buddhism and continental philosophy on the topics of, among others, self, language, and violence. In this book, Park offers the "ethics of tension" as a potential ethical paradigm drawn from Buddhism and postmodern philosophy.

Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun (2014), is a translation of a book published in Korean in 1960 by Kim Iry艔p (1896-1971), a writer, first-generation Korean feminist, Buddhist nun, and philosopher. In this book, Kim Iry艔p offers a creative interpretation of Buddhist philosophy and practice.

In Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryop (2017), Park proposes a new mode of philosophizing based on the discussion of Kim Iry艔p鈥檚 life and philosophy.

Park is also the editor of volumes: Buddhisms and Deconstructions (2006), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (co-edited, 2009), Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy (2009), and Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism (2010).
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Books

  • (co-edited with Hwansoo Ilmee Kim). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022.
  • (co-edited with Albert Welter and Steven Heine). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022.
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  • (trans). Honolulu, HI:听University of Hawai`i Press, 2014.
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  • (co-ed.). Lanham, MD:听Lexington Books, 2009.听听
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  • (ed.). Lanham, MD:听Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

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Selected Recent publications (Book chapters and Journal articles)

2024-2019

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  1. 鈥淕ateless Barrier and the Locus of Truth.鈥 In Readings of the Gateless Barrier, edited by Jimmy Yu. New York: Columbia University Press. (in print).
  2. 鈥淢oral Minimalism and Engaged Global Citizenship: A Buddhist Perspective.鈥 In Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a New Planetary Order: Alternative Cultural Perspectives, edited by Roger T. Ames, J. Y. Lim and S. Y. H Yang. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (in print).
  3. 鈥淢iguk Pulguo鈥 (艾可直播 Buddhism). Pulgyo Munhwa 278 (Oct 2023): 11-16.
  4. 鈥淢editation and the Attainment of the Mind.鈥 (trans.) In A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy, edited by Mohammed Rustom, Equinox Publishing. (in print)
  5. 鈥淣othingness and Self Transformation: Kim Iry艔p, Tanabe Hajime, and Jacques Derrida on Religious Practice.鈥 In Philosophy of Religion after <Religion>, edited by Michael Ch. Rodgers and Richard Amersbury. T眉bingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, 107-12
  6. 鈥淪ilchonj艔k, haech鈥櫯廽艔k, k怒rigo, chonjaej艔k: Kim Hy艔nghyo ch鈥櫯弐hak es艔 haech鈥檈 怒i 怒imi鈥 [Existential, deconstructive, and existing: meaning of deconstruction in Kim Hy艔nghyo鈥檚 philosophy]. In Simw艔n Kim Hy艔nghyo 怒i ch鈥櫯弐hak ch艔k sayu wa salm [Simw艔n Kim Hy艔nghyo鈥檚 philosophy and life], edited by Simw艔n sasan y艔n鈥檊uhoe. Seoul, Pogosa, 2023, 87-109.听听听听听听听听听
  7. 鈥淎ction and Praxis.鈥 In Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers, edited by Sarah Flavel and Chiara Robbiano. London: Bloomsbury Academics, 2023, 13-19.
  8. 鈥淣onviolence and Ethical Imagination.鈥 World Environment and Island Studies 12, No. 4 (December 2022): 237-240.
  9. 鈥淲hat Do Zen Masters Teach Us Today?: The Case of S艔n Master Hyeam S艔nggwan.鈥 In New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society, edited by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim and Jin Y. Park. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022, 21-46.
  10. 鈥淕ender and Dharma Lineage: Nuns in Korean S艔n Buddhism.鈥 In Approaches to Chan, S艔n, and Zen Studies, edited by Albert Welter, Steven Heine, & Jin Y. Park. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022, 239-262.
  11. 鈥淪ynchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Korean Buddhism via Hangzhou: 努ich鈥櫯弉鈥檚 Hwa艔m Buddhism and Hangzhou Gaoli si.鈥 International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 32, no 1 (June 2022): 51-82.
  12. 鈥淎uthentic Time and the Political: Steven Heine on D艒gen, Heidegger, and Bob Dylan." In The Theory and Practice of Zen Buddhism: A Festschrift in Honor of Steven Heine, edited by Charles S. Prebish, On-Cho Ng. Bloomsbury, 2022: 313-33
  13. "An Examined Life: Women, Buddhism, and Philosophy in Kim Iry艔p.鈥 Journal of World Philosophies 5 (Winter 2020): 176-18
  14. 鈥淗yeam S艔nsa 怒i S艔n sasang kwa Han鈥檊uk Pulgyo 怒i segyehwa鈥 (S艔n Master Hyeam鈥檚 Buddhist thoughts and the globalization of Korean Buddhism). Hyeam S艔nsa 怒i S艔n Sasang kwa Segyehwa (S艔n Master Hyeam鈥檚 Buddhist thoughts and globalization). Hyeam S艔nsa muhwa chinh怒nghoe, ed. Seoul: Sihwa怒m, 2020, 97-136.听 听听
  15. 鈥淒oing Philosophy at the Margin.鈥 艾可直播 Philosophical Association鈥檚 Newsletter on Asian and Asian 艾可直播 Philosophers and Philosophies 20, no 1 (Fall 2020): 55-57.

Professional Services

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • President (Nov 2023-Nov 2024),
  • President (2016-present),
  • President (2018-2019),
  • Editorial Board Member (2010-present),
  • Founding Director (2001- 2018),

Grants and Sponsored Research

  • The Uberoi Foundation Religious Studies Grant
  • Academy of Korean Studies, Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies, Co-Researcher, on the project "Traces of Reason:听The Korean Approach to Logic and Rationality and Its RElation to Buddhist Traditions from India and China"
  • Mellon Fellowship
  • 艾可直播 Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant
  • Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant
  • Academy of Korean Studies, Translation of Korean Buddhism Grant
  • Korea University, International Center for Korean Studies, Korean Studies Publication Series Grant