Dr Gregory Evon

Dr Gregory Evon completed his BA and MA in Korean and East Asian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and then came to the Australian National University to continue his PhD under Prof. Ken Wells.

He has published articles on the Buddhist literature of Han Yongun (1879-1944), on the classical poetry of Kim Sisup (1435-1493) and Yi Kyubo (1168-1241), as well as articles on premodern Korean literary and intellectual history, often dealing with Buddhism.

Select Publications

Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910), Cambria Press: Amherst, New York, 2023, https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=902

"Script Apartheid and Literary Production in Pre-modern Korea: Framing Pollock’s Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in East Asia," in Ross King (ed.), Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen 文: Reading Sheldon Pollock from the Sinographic Cosmopolis, Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2023: pp. 349-377. 

'Buddhism and Statecraft in Korea: The Long View', in Balkwill S; Benn JA (ed.), Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia, Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2022: pp. 119 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004510227

'Han Yongun, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Questions of Nationalism and Colonialism', in Kim HI; Park JY (ed.), New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society, SUNY Press: Albany, 2022: pp. 211 - 232, https://sunypress.edu/Books/N/New-Perspectives-in-Modern-Korean-Buddhism#:~:text=New%20Perspectives%20in%20Modern%20Korean%20Buddhism%20moves%20beyond%20nationalistic%2C%20modernist,its%20place%20in%20transnational%20conversations.

'Kim Sisŭp', in Silk JA (ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Volume II, Lives, Handbook of Oriental Studies., Leiden and Boston, 2019: pp. 873 - 876, https://brill.com/view/title/23918?lang=en

“The Current Situation of Korean Romanization in Australia and Oceania,” in 엄익상 ed., 한글 로마자표기법 해외사용실태 조사분석 보고서  (Seoul: Hanyang University), pp. 75-84.

 "Uncovering Korean Textual and Literary Histories: A Critical Review of Recent Scholarship on Korea’s Literary Past,” International Review of Korean Studies 6(1), January-December 2009, pp. 155-186.

"The Conservation of Knowledge and the Technology of the Word in Korea,” Asian Studies Review 33(1), March 2009, pp. 1-19.

"Chinese Contexts, Korean Realities: The Politics of Literary Genre in Late Chosŏn (1392-1910) Korea,” East Asian History (32/33), December 2006/June 2007  [published 2008], pp. 57-82.

“중국문학사 관점에서 보는 조선후기 문학장르의 정치 양상—정약용의 ‘조선시선언’ 고찰 (The Political Aspects of Late Chosŏn Literary Genre as Seen from the Perspective of Chinese Literary History—An Examination of Chŏng Yagyong’s ‘Proclamation of Korean Poetry’),” 수행인문학 (The Journal of Performative Humanities) 38(1), 2008, pp. 137-147.

 "한국역사에서의 ‘알파벳인쇄’ 문제 (The Riddle of Alphabetic Print in Korean History),” 한국학논집 43, May 2008, pp. 249-258.

"Brushes and Booze in the Poetry of Yi Kyubo (1168-1241),” The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (Sydney University), 2004/2005, vol. 36-37, pp. 122-149.
 
 "Remembering the Past, Condemned to the Present: The Imaginative Retreat of Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493),” International Review of Korean Studies (KAREC, The University of New South Wales), 2004, 1(1), pp. 49-81.  

  "Contestations over Korean Buddhist Identities: The ‘Introduction’ to the Kyŏnghŏjip,”, The Review of Korean Studies (The Academy of Korean Studies), vol. 4, no. 1, June 2001, pp. 11-33.

“Ghostly Voices and Their Avatar: Buddhist Resonances in Han Yongun’s Enlightenment Verse,” The Review of Korean Studies (The Academy of Korean Studies), vol. 3, no. 1, September 2000,  pp. 93-122.

 "Eroticism and Buddhism in Han Yongun’s Your Silence,” Korean Studies (Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii), vol. 24 (Winter,2000), pp. 25-52.