Yonsoo Kim

About

Yonsoo Kim is an Associate Professor at Purdue University, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Languages, Literature, and Cultures (SLC), and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS). His research focuses on Medieval and Golden Age Iberian Literature, Medicine and Literature, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Text Digitalization, and Disability Studies. He is the Director of the MMEDIS Research Team and the Coordinator-in-Chief of the International Conference of AHLiST. Additionally, he serves as the Vice-President of the Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM).

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Physics
• Internal medicine
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Mathematical optimization
• Gastroenterology
• Oncology
• Medicine
• Applied mathematics

Selected publications

• Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

  2020-09-08 · 13 citations

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  "Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were construed as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes…

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• A Critical Review of Disaster Management Resource Problems based on Past Disaster Events

  Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation · 2019-08-31 · 6 citations

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  When a disaster event occurs, early preventive measures, through disaster management resources, are highly crucial for minimizing the areas affected by disaster. The resulting damage can become widespread in cases where there is a lack of resources or the early reaction is delayed due to difficulties in mobilizing resources in a timely manner. However, because there are various types of resources and stockpiles, and disaster events are characterized by different occurrences and types of damage,…

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• Development of a Typhoon Risk Index (TRI) Based on Records of Typhoon Damage

  Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation · 2019-12-31 · 2 citations

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  Typhoon cause damage through simultaneous flooding, strong winds, and storms; they have been one of the most damaging disasters of the last decade. In this study, we develop a typhoon risk index (TRI) based on records of typhoon damage that occurred in 229 municipalities across South Korea since 1994. The TRI employs a pressure-state-response (PSR) framework system. For the pressure index (PI), we use ten indicators that represent hydro-meteorological, regional, and socio-economic characteristic…

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• Teresa de Cartagena’s Illness and Disability as Embodied Knowledge

  Romanic Review · 2022-05-01 · 1 citations

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  Abstract Physical illness may lead women to grow spiritually, reflect on their lives, and learn how to write about their unique experiences. A fifteenth-century Castilian writer, Teresa de Cartagena distinguishes herself for being a nun, a conversa, a member of a powerful Jewish family, and most of all a disabled (deaf) woman of letters. Her work Arboleda de los enfermos represents a hybrid paradigm in which literature, religion, and medicine interact with one another in medieval Europe. Teresa’…

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• The Selection of Optimal Distributions for Distributed Hydrological Models using Multi-criteria Calibration Techniques

  Journal of Wetlands Researh · 2020-01-01 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Hung Soo Kim

  Inha University

  37 shared

• Soojun Kim

  Inha University

  36 shared

• Muhammad Ajmal

  32 shared

• Narae Kang

  Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

  29 shared

• Chung‐Chih Liu

  Scripps Research Institute

  16 shared

• Sajid Ali

  Lady Reading Hospital

  16 shared

• Fernando Paz Pellat

  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  16 shared

• Víctor Manuel Salas Aguilar

  Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

  16 shared

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