Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Lecturer, China and Korea Centre Email: Ruth.Barraclough@anu.edu.au Phone: + 61 2 6125 3438 Fax: + 61 2 6125 3144 Room: e309 Baldessin Precinct Building

Educational Background

PhD, Australian National University

Selected Publications

• (ed.) with Elyssa Faison, Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class, London, Routledge, forthcoming.
• Slum Romance in Korean Factory Girl Literature, in R. Barraclough and E. Faison (eds), Gender and Labour in Japan and Korea: Sexing Class, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2009.
• with E. Faison, The Entanglements of Sexual and Industrial Labour, in R. Barraclough and E. Faison (eds), Gender and Labour in Japan and Korea: Sexing Class, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2009.
• Tales of Seduction: factory girls in Korean proletarian literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, 14:2, Fall 2006, Duke University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/v014/14.2barraclough.html
• When Korean Working-Class Women Began to Write Ch'angjakkwa Bip'yông [Creation and Criticism] Vol 127, Spring 2005, Seoul : Ch'angbi, pp.289-313 (translated into Korean).

Research Activities

Korean Factory Girls: Sex, Class and Culture in Korea’s Industrial Revolution. Book manuscript

Research Interests

• Korean labour history and gender studies
• The factory girl in Korean literature
• Proletarian literature and the Red Decade
• Korean kisaeng and sexual slavery in high art
• Red Love in colonial Korea

Previous positions

• Lecturer, Department of History, University of Minnesota 2006-7
• Korean Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney 2004-5

Courses Taught

KORE2020 Spoken Korean 3
KORE2021 Spoken Korean 4
KORE3013 Written Korean D
ASIA2040 Modern Korea