Interests

Early modern literature and religion, media history and theory, sound studies, history of science, material texts

Trina Hyun specializes in early modern English literature and media studies. She is currently working on her first book, Media Theologies, 1615-1668, which maps the ideas of media and communication in the devotional poetry and prose of post-Reformation England and traces their ties to twentieth-century media theory. Her research has been generously supported by the Huntington Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the New York Public Library, where she was a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow in 2023-2024. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2023 and was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field dissertation prize.

Articles and Publications

“Donne's Media Theology,” English Literary History (ELH), vol. 88 no. 4, 2021, pp. 821-843.

Review Essays

“Book and Media Theory,” The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 28 no. 1, 2020, pp. 351–369.

“Book / Media Theory,” The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 27 no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–21.