Nayoung Bishoff (서나영) is a Ph.D. student in English at the George Washington University where she is a Columbian Distinguished Fellow. Her research focuses on comparative literature between East and West, particularly Shakespearean adaptations and Romanticism. She has presented on gender, cultural globalization, and film and theater studies at the American Comparative Literature Association, Shakespeare Association of America, Asian Shakespeare Association, Renaissance Society of America, Popular Culture Association, and other venues. Her most recent essay, "Shakespeare and K-Drama: Reversed Gender Roles in Romeo and Juliet and Crash Landing on You," is published in Volume 16, Issue 1 of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (2024). Her short story "The Land of Canaan" won the 2023 New Writers' Award from Korean Literary Society of Washington.

nayoung.seo@email.gwu.edu