Place has meaning. Place names have meaning not only in the linguistic or etymological sense, but also have socio-cultural significance. Place has a geographical dimension (physical or imaginary).

Doctoral Thesis, Monograph: Communicating Female Voicelessness: A Feminist-Narratological Study of Pak Wansô's Short Stories from the 1970s

Contribution to The Many Roads in Modernity: The Transformation of South-East Europe and the Ottoman Heritage from 1870 to the Twenty-first Century (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

The study investigates whether South Korea has respected human rights since the revision of the Constitution in 1987 that introduced direct presidential elections and how respect has changed throughout time.

The Lausanne Project: The Project takes its name from the longest-lasting of the post-First World War peace settlements: the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

Doctoral thesis, monograph: Prisonscape: Literary Reconfigurations of the Real and Imagined Worlds of the Chinese Prison

Doctoral thesis, monograph: "Staging Violence, Singing Hope: Trauma, Memory, and Affect in Three Musical and Dance Performances by North Korean Migrants in South Korea".