{"id":6946,"date":"2020-02-18T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/css\/?post_type=stories&p=6946"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:25:46","slug":"6946","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/6946\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU Professor\u2019s Book Finds Admirers in an Unexpected Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many university professors, EWU\u2019s Mimi Marinucci uses her own book in one of the classes she teaches. But she never imagined that a former student would help her promote her work to readers half-way around the world. Marinucci is a professor of philosophy and women\u2019s and gender studies at Eastern. In her Queer Theory class, she uses her book, Feminism is Queer<\/em>, to explore how queer theory is continuous with feminist theory. According to the description by the publisher, Zed Books of London,\u00a0Feminism is Queer<\/em>\u00a0is an indispensable guide for anyone with an interest in gender, sexuality and the connections between feminism and queer issues.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago, Marinucci says, her publisher sold translation rights for the book to a South Korean publishing company. \u201cI emailed back and forth with the translator and I wrote a new preface,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I really didn\u2019t know how to obtain any further information about it.\u201d That was until a former student stopped by to visit in January.<\/p>\n

Changhoon Lee studied with Marinucci as a philosophy major at EWU and returned to his home in South Korea after graduation. During a recent visit to the United States he stopped by Eastern\u2019s philosophy department.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe brought me a couple of copies of the Korean version of my book as a gift, and informed me that it has been getting quite a bit of attention,\u201d Marinucci says. Thrilled with this news, she agreed to do an interview with a Korean newspaper. Lee assisted by translating Marinucci\u2019s interview answers.<\/p>\n

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The article was published recently in the newspaper,\u00a0Today<\/em>. You can\u00a0see the article on the newspaper website<\/a>, but if you don\u2019t speak Korean you\u2019ll need to activate a translation plugin in your web browser.<\/p>\n

Marinucci says she was honored to interview with the newspaper and share her expertise with a wider audience. And while she was first surprised by the interest, the translator who helped her with the Korean version of her book gave her some valuable insight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe person who translated my book explained some of what is happening with feminism in South Korea today,\u201d says Marinucci. \u201cIt seems like feminism is growing, but, unfortunately, there is less acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities. I think that is much of the reason why a book that explicitly links feminism and queer theory is particularly provocative for Korean readers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marinucci also says she recently gave permission for a Turkish academic journal to publish a translation of one of the chapters of the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be interesting to see if that gets as much attention as the Korean translation,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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