I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) and Distinguished Dissertation Fellow (2021-2022) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My advisor is Dr. Nicholas Fleisher. I work on (theoretical) syntax and its interface with semantics. My dissertation research focuses on non-standard wh-constructions in Korean (‘why’-like ‘what’ and exclamative ‘what’).

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein –

RECENT AND UPCOMING:

• April 29, 2022: Dissertation defense
• December, 2021: present at 2021LSK Young Scholar Symposium
• October, 2021 (online) and Jan, 2022: “‘what’-exclamatives in Korean” at NELS 52, LSA 96, and ALC 15
• Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year
• June 4-6, 2021 (online): “Negative wh-constructions in Korean at JWLLP and KLCC
• January 26-28, 2021 (online): “on the syntax of ‘why’-like ‘what’ in Korean at ConSOLE 29
• January 21, 2021: proposal hearing
• January 7-10, 2021 (online): one paper and one poster at LSA 95