Se Jin Park

Se Jin Park (she/they) is a medievalist with a particular focus on the modern reappropriation and restoration of late medieval English churches, in which she hopes to employ a technical art historical approach. Se Jin is also invested in queer, monstrous, and obscene imagery across time periods, alongside her interest in the transmediality and transculturality of late medieval European material culture.

Recently, Se Jin participated in a conservation workshop to restore the thirteenth-century portal in San Gemini, Umbria, Italy. Also, she was the recipient of the Crosby Fellowship and received the best graduate essay prize from the Elizabethan Club of Yale University.

Before coming to Yale, she earned 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,” Se Jin 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, she received her BFA in Sculpture from Seoul National University.