Hannah H. Kim

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Hi! I’m Hannah.

I’m an assistant professor at the University of Arizona’s philosophy department and a faculty affiliate with the Center for East Asian Studies. I’m also an editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

I work on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy. My favorite topics are found at their intersections.

I also write and speak about philosophy, culture, and the arts for a general audience. I’m a Contributor at Aesthetics for Birds and Psyche, and my writings have appeared in WIRED, LA Times, USA Today, Dark Wall / Bright Room, and The Philosopher, among other places. My interviews have appeared on PBS / Arizona Public Media, Philosophers on Culture, and Philosophers Discussing Art, among other places.

Before joining Arizona, I taught at Macalester College. And before that, I received my PhD in Philosophy and PhD minor in Comparative Literature from Stanford. Here is my C.V.


upcoming talks

Sep, 2025 presenting a paper on LLM outputs and genres at Modern Fiction Studies’ conference on AI at Perdue University
Sep, 2025 giving a colloquium on translating poetic prose (and Han Kang’s Human Acts)
Oct, 2025 workshopping a paper on methodology in philosophy of fiction at University of Chicago’s Theoretical Philosophy Group
Oct, 2025 presenting on comparative philosophy of fiction at the American Society for Aesthetics
Oct, 2025 giving a colloquium at Dartmouth College
Nov, 2025 giving a colloquium at Colorado College
Nov, 2025 giving a colloquium at Texas Tech University