Si Nae Park is an associate professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Her research interests include the interplay between Literary Sinitic and the written vernacular, ideologies of language and writing, the social production of Seoul in late Chosŏn literature, and history of the book and of reading. Her monograph The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn (Columbia University Press, forthcoming) traces the rise of the vernacular story genre (yadam) in the cultural scene of late Chosŏn Seoul. Currently she is preparing a second monograph on the topic of alternative literacies in late Chosŏn social life.