Eun-Shil Kim is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies at Ewha Womans University. She was the Director of the Asian Center for Women’s Studies and the Director of the Korean Women Institute at Ewha Womans University for many years. She is an Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS) and 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 fields of women’s bodies, sexuality, modernity, nationalism, globalization, migration, feminist knowledge production, and post-development issues, and violence against women during the war. She received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, San Francisco. 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,” “Itaewon as an Alien Space within the Nation-State and a Place in the Globalization Era,” “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 Fascism Within Us, Locational Feminisms in the Age of Globalization, Noh Muhyun Government’s Experiments: Unfinished Reform, etc).