Hannah H. Kim

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 |
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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 |