Hyunjip Kim

Hyunjip read Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, and received an M.A. in Classics from Stanford.

Hyunjip's current dissertation project deals with the development of philosophia as a genre in Ancient Greece, specifically in terms of the topics that it covered. For this purpose, he is examining not just the essential nodes in the canon but also a host of minor philosophers. He is keen to explore more ways of combining traditional methods with computational tools and is Digital Humanities Research Scholar at CESTA (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis).

In 2020-23, Hyunjip temporarily left Stanford to serve in the Korean military. For 3 years, he served as Air Force officer (first lieutenant) and, as Assistant Professor at the Republic of Korea Air Force Academy, he taught ancient and modern philosophy as well as courses in Classics to cadets. He was given the Superintendent's Best Professor Teaching Award in 2022. He was discharged on 30 November 2023, and he has returned to Stanford to continue his PhD as of 2024.

Hyunjip has published in the Swedish journal Eranos (‘Apollonius Rhodius and a Homeric Gloss’) and the Korean Journal of Graeco-Roman Studies (‘Notes on Thesmophoriazusae 26-28: Doors, Metatheatre, and Intellectual Comedy’).

Hyunjip wrote a monthly column in Seoul Shinmun, a Korean daily newspaper, from 2018 to 2022. His articles were collected in his first book, 내 불운은 어디서 오는 것일까?, which was published in Korea in February 2024.

Seloarts Gallery, in Seoul, Korea, hosted his first solo exhibition, Fate Hits Rock Bottom, in December 2024.