Heinz Insu Fenkl

Heinz Insu Fenkl

HEINZ
INSU
FENKL
Associate Professor, Department of English
SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Dr., JFT 714
New Paltz, NY 12561
845.257.2743 (o) / 845.257.2720 (dept.)
fenkli@newpaltz.edu

Courses

Great Books: Asian Classics
Contemporary Asian Film
Visual/Verbal Storytelling

(ISIS is no more. Please visit the Interstitial Arts Foundation.)

Fiction

Memories of My Ghost Brother (available through Bo-Leaf Books)
Glossary
Spectator interview

Image from a Stolen Camera

Excerpt from Skull Water

Song Bird (in EnterText 3.2) -- pdf file
Fairytale version of Song Bird (abridged)
How Master Madman Came to Ch'ing Feng Temple
Illustration for "Master Madman" by The' Nguyen

Princess P (13 pages from my graphic-novel-in-progress colored by Bella

SPACE BUNNY! by Bella Dalton-Fenkl

Listen to me talk about Ghost Brother and Korean Folktales on
WAMC Albany's

ROUNDTABLE with Joe Donahue (October 27, 2010).

Korean Studies

Dancing on Knives: A Brief Introduction to Korean Shamanism

Image from a Stolen Camera: An Autoethnographic Recursion
Asian American Literature and Korean Literature: Common Problems and Challenges from a Segyehwa Perspective
The Future of Korean American Literature

Korean Folktales Page

AZALEA: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (with my translation of Lee Chang-dong's "The Dreaming Beast")

Translations

Korean Folktales (available through Bo-Leaf Books)

"Record of a Consummation" by Yi Sang (translated with Walter K. Lew)

"Looking for the Elephant" by Jo Kyung Ran, in Words Without Borders (4 weeks on the Harvard Bookstore BESTSELLER list!)

Korean Comics (manhwa)

A gallery of Korean manhwa translations published by Eastern Comics in the 1980s.

Excerpts from North Korean comic books.

Edited Volumes

Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction

Co-edited with Walter K. Lew

Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America 1903-2003

Co-edited with Jenny Ryun Foster and Frank Stewart

Miscellaneous

Mu: a reflection on shamanism and synthesis
Haunting: on memory and place
Folkroots Columns for Realms of Fantasy reprinted in The Endicott Studios Journal of Mythic Arts (essays below are on this main page with others):
           The Blindman's Daughter
           American Dreamtime
           Aliens and Angels
           The Binary Serpent
           Caduceus
           Fathers and Sons
           Fox Wives and Other Dangerous Women
           Heaven and Hello
           The Mermaid (my most popular essay, probably because it discusses the origin of the Starbucks logo)
           Of Men and Mud
           The Secret Alchemy of Dr. Seuss (an analysis of The Lorax)
           The Literary Vampire
           Storytelling and Healing
           The Owlglass & the Moon of Gold: Tyll Eulenspiegel and Kim Seon-dal

Me at Cape May
Bio at IAF site

Please visit
The Interstitial Arts Foundation