Eun-Shil Kim is a Professor of the Department of Women's Studies, Director of the Asian Center for Women’s Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS) at Ewha Womans University. She is currently serving as President of the Asian Association of Women's Studies (AAWS). Through the years, she has been involved in developing the intellectual community of feminist scholars in Asia since 1995 and has done research in the field of women’s bodies, sexuality, modernity, nationalism, globalization, migration, feminist knowledge production, and postdevelopment issues. She worked as the Secretary General for the 2005 Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. She published many articles (e.g. “The Discourse of Nationalism and Women,” “The Cultural Logic of the Korean Modernization Project and its Gender Politics,” “The Formation of Public Sphere and Gender Politics during the Nation-Building Period of the First Republic of South Korea in the 1950s,” "The Politics of Institutionalizing Feminist Knowledge: Discussing 'Asian Women's Studies in South Korea," ”The Politics of the Jeju 4.3 Holeomeong Bodies: “Speaking” and Emotion as Embodied Language", etc.) and books (e.g. Women’s Bodies/the Cultural Politics of Bodies, co-authored books such as Locational Feminisms in the Age of Globalization, Noh Muhyun Government’s Experiments: Unfinished Reform, etc).