Eun-Shil Kim is an Emeritus Professor at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. She was a Professor of the Department of Women's Studies and the Dean of the College of Social Sciences at Ewha Womans University. Through the years, she has been involved in developing the intellectual community of feminist scholars in Asia since 1995 and studied Asian Women’s Studies as transnational feminist practices. She also served as President of the Asian Association of Women's Studies (AAWS) during 2016-2019. She earned a Ph D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1993 and has done research in the field of women’s bodies, sexuality, and biopower, the formation of the Korean nation-state and nationalism, the embodiment of the experience of comfort women and Jeju 4.3 Holomongs(widows). She published many articles (e.g. “The Discourse of Nationalism and Women,” “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, “ 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, Feminisms in the Age of Corona Pandemic, etc.). Currently, Professor Kim is working on studying feminist political economy, knowledge/power, and embodiment of the experience of fear during the colonial period and the era of the Cold War through sexual and gendered violence.