Teaching Modernist Literature in a Women's College in South Korea

ABSTRACT This essay discusses how post‐#MeToo consciousness, shaped by multiple factors in South Korea, has influenced the teaching of modernist literature at a South Korean women's college. It examines how texts like Mrs Dalloway and St. Mawr resonate with students who are rethinking marriage, gender roles, and national belonging. It also proposes pairing A Room of One's Own with the Korean novel Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 , widely recognized as #MeToo literature and internationally circulated. The essay highlights how feminist pedagogy enables students to read canonical works as tools for navigating their own lived experiences, shaped by gendered violence, precarity, and a desire for alternative futures. It argues for a reading practice that bridges literature and life, fostering critical empathy and feminist imagination.