Wayne de Fremery

Wayne has an undergraduate degree in economics from Whitman College, a master's degree in Korean Studies from Seoul National University, and a doctorate in Korean literature from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Currently associate professor and chair of the Department of Global Korean Studies at Sogang University, Wayne is the author of a growing number of books and articles about bibliography and the socialization of twentieth-century Korean literary texts. His current book project is titled "Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data." He is also at work on a manuscript titled "How Poetry Mattered in 1920s Korea."

Books designed or typeset by Wayne have appeared from the Korea Institute at Harvard, the University of Washington Press, and Wayne’s award-winning small press, Tamal Vista Publications.

Wayne is at work on several digital projects with collaborators at UC Berkeley (US), University of Nottingham (UK), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (US), Microsoft (South Korea), and Google (US).

Wayne is a founding board member of the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea, where he is Director of the Korea Text Initiative. His artwork has appeared at a number conferences and exhibitions, including HCI Korea 2014 and DAW BioArt Seoul 2015.

November 2017