Publication Details

Prof. Hong Ji-eun of the Department of French Language and Literature at Pusan National University (President: Choi Jae-won) has published Imaginaire et Itérances. L'Essence du Voyage chez Gautier (April 28) through French publisher SPM (Kronos) a prestigious academic house known for publishing Sorbonne faculty works and Napoleonic scholarship under the patronage of the Fondation Napoléon. Distribution is handled by L'Harmattan, and the book will be featured at ASOM in May.

The book features a preface by Prof. Dominique Barjot Sorbonne Professor Emeritus, former Vice-Minister of Education of France, and current Lifetime President of ASOM - lending considerable scholarly prestige to the publication.

About the Author

Prof. Hong earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in French Civilization and Literature from Paris Sorbonne University. She has published numerous solo-authored articles in academic journals affiliated with leading universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, and is a 2020 laureate of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She has also been invited as editor of a special Korean edition (No. 25, 2026-1) of the French economic history journal Revue française d'histoire économique, supported by the Banque de France and Sorbonne University, featuring a preface by PNU President Choi Jae-won, due for publication in France in early June 2026. 

- Author: HONG Ji Eun (Departement of French Langauge and Literature)

- Title of original paper: Imaginaire et Itinérances : L'Essence du Voyage chez Gautier

- Contact e-mail: cfje1003@gmail.com