Dae-won Noh

Research

Research areas

• AI and literature

• Korean science fiction

• Posthumanism

• Generative AI and literary education

• Cognitive narratology

Selected publications

Selected books and chapters

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  Robots Writing Novels: Literature in the Age of AI

  Moonji Publishing, 2025

  Selected for Daesan Literary Grant · Book website: https://flo.host/2fBloO4/

  Examines how literary authorship and narrative forms transform in an era when artificial intelligence writes fiction. Spanning discussions on generative AI, AI-generated literature, science fiction, and posthumanism, this critical study questions human creativity and the future of literature.

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  Narratology of Embodied Cognition

  Pagijong Press, 2023

  Selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by the National Academy of Sciences of Korea

  Explores the relationship between bodily sensations, cognition, and narrative forms in Korean fiction dealing with illness and healing. From the perspective of cognitive narratology, it investigates how the experience of an ill body acquires meaning in literature and expands into a way of understanding others and the world.

• Korean Posthuman SF

  Forthcoming

• AI Is Literature: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Literature

  Forthcoming

• “Korean SF Literature, 2010–Present”

  The Routledge History of Korean Science Fiction, Routledge, 2027 (forthcoming)

• “Why does Korea desire AI?”

  Contested Korea, Routledge, forthcoming

Recent Publications

Recent Journal Articles (2021–Present)

• “The Survival Narrative of a Young Carer in Sister Mongsil”

  Family and Community (가족과 커뮤니티) No. 14, 2026. (co-authored)

• “How Does AI Rewrite Literary Theory? - Posthumanist Aesthetics in the Age of Technosymbiosis -”

  Yeongju Language and Literature (영주어문) Vol. 62, 2026.

• “Beyond Prompt Engineering: Exploring Collaborative Dialogue with GenAI for Problem-Solving”

  Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2025. (SSCI, Q1, co-authored)

• “How Will Generative AI Change Humanities Research?”

  Yeongju Language and Literature (영주어문) Vol. 59, 2025. (co-authored)

• “Narratives After the Human, Narratives Beyond the Human —The Emergence and Development of 20th-Century Korean Posthuman Science Fiction—”

  Modern Studies in Korean Literature (한국현대문학연구) No. 74, 2024. · PDF (0.7MB) ↓

• “Vulnerability and Narrative: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Critical-Practical Narratology”

  Studies in Humanities (인문학연구) No. 61, 2024. (co-authored) · PDF (1.6MB) ↓

• “Can Artificial Intelligence Solve the Climate Crisis? - The Climate Crisis and AI Narratives in Korean Science Fiction”

  Popular Narrative Research (대중서사연구) 30(1), 2024.

• “Baby-Making Robots - Low Birthrate Crisis and Criticism of Reproductive Futurism in Korean Feminist Science Fiction”

  Eomun Yeongu (어문연구) Vol. 118, 2023.

• “Fiction-Teaching Robot ― Teaching and Learning Strategies for Literary Education Using Generative AI”

  Critical Review of Literature (비평문학) No. 90, 2023.

• “Strategies for Solving the AI Plagiarism Problem and Educational Applications of ChatGPT”

  Journal of Korean Language Education Research (국어교육연구) No. 82, 2023. (co-authored)

• “Re-dreaming about Futures: Alternative Futurisms in Korean and Global Science Fiction”

  Trans-Humanities (탈경계인문학) 16(1), 2023.

• “Fiction-Writing Robot - ChatGPT and AI-Generated Literature -”

  Korean Literary Criticism and Theory (한국문예비평연구) No. 77, 2023.

• “A Study on the Literary Education for Youth using Serious Games: Focusing on Unfolded series”

  Journal of Youth Culture Forum (청소년문화포럼) No. 73, 2023.

• “A Study on Core Competencies for Elementary and Secondary Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”

  Journal of Digital Contents Society (디지털콘텐츠학회논문지) 23(11), 2022. (co-authored)

• “Posthuman Literature and Speculative Imagination of Science Fiction”

  Korean Language and Literature (국어국문학) No. 200, 2022.

• “Vulnerability Studies in Precarious Times: Transdisciplinary Investigation on the Concept of Vulnerability”

  Comparative Korean Studies (비교한국학) 30(1), 2022. (co-authored)

• “Survivalism and Ethics of Love in Kim Hoon’s Novel Gongmudoha”

  Baengnok Journal of Korean Language and Literature Education (백록어문교육) Vol. 30, 2022.

• “Rhetorical Criticism and Reader’s Anxiety: Reading Lee Cheong-jun’s “The Crippled and the Fool””

  Yeongju Language and Literature (영주어문) Vol. 49, 2021.

• “Rhetoric and Narrative Effects of Second Person Fiction: Focusing on Choi Yun’s “Poetics of Thirst””

  Journal of Korean Language Education Research (국어교육연구) No. 77, 2021.

• “When Artificial Intelligence Dominates Humans - AI in Science Fiction and Singularity Narratives”

  Ewha Journal of Korean Language and Literature (이화어문논집) No. 54, 2021.

• “Neuroscience and Narrative Ethics in Psychopath Fiction”

  Yeongju Language and Literature (영주어문) Vol. 47, 2021.

Speaking

Selected speaking topics

Contact

Contact

Department of Korean Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University · novum@skku.edu

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