Bo-Won Keum is an independent researcher, designer, and educator of images, text, and publication. She lives and works between Cambridge and Sunset Park. (...)

Currently Teaching:

Speaking:

  • “On Copying,” for Ways of Doing Media Studies, taught by Jenny Tang, Stony Brook University, on September 22, 2026. Lecture.
  • “On Ekphrasis,” for Shimmer Around The Edges, taught by Meg Miller, VCU, on April 3, 2026. Lecture.
  • “1:1” for Smoke: The Trace as Ephemeral Matter, taught by Chloe Tusi, Harvard GSD, on January 9, 2026. Lecture.
  • “Science Storytelling through Book Arts,” for MIT Libraries on October 28, 2025. Panel.
  • “What Are Images Made Of?” for The Machine in the Garden: Cinema and Nature, taught by Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen, Sarah Lawrence College, on March 24, 2025. Lecture.
  • “Typography and Translation,” for the Center for the Art of Translation and the Center for Fiction, on September 26, 2024. Panel.

Writing:

  • “On Dear Books to Prisoners,” in On Education (2025) by Amant, Writing. [PDF]
  • “On the Letterform of the Age,” Triple Canopy, Issue 26 (February 2021), Writing. [LINK]

Publishing:

  • NORRI: A Play Book (2024) by DaEun Jung and Ajani Brannum, Design.
  • Fossils Are Made From Retreating Water, on residency at the Badlands National Park (2023–2024), Publication.
  • Dear Books to Prisoners: Letters from the Incarcerated (Seattle: Left Bank Books, 2019), Publication.