Se Jin Park

Se Jin Park (she/they) is a medievalist with a particular focus on the postmedieval reappropriation and reception of rood screens and wall paintings in late medieval English churches. Considering their social and physical history, she has been questioning how queer, monstrous, and obscene images are closely entangled with restoration practices and how such material layers are interwoven with ideas of medievalisms—most importantly, why these matter to us now.

Se Jin received her MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. For her research, “Betwixt and Between: A Gendered and Palimpsest Reading of the Panel Painting of St Wilgefortis at Worstead,” she was awarded the Sam Fogg Prize for the best MA dissertation on the classical, Byzantine, and medieval topics at the Courtauld. She also worked on her Distinction-awarded MLitt thesis on the performative aspects of reading fifteenth- and sixteenth-century northern European manuscripts at the University of St Andrews. Previously, as an artist, Se Jin earned her BFA in Sculpture from Seoul National University, where she developed a keen interest in the materiality of things and pictorial-textual relationships in visual media, which she has continued to explore.