Хейнц Инсу Фенкл: Американдық жазушы, фольклорист және Корея әдебиеті сарапшысы

American writer and academic (born 1960)
Heinz Insu Fenkl (born 1960) is an author, editor, translator, and folklorist. His autobiographical novels Memories of My Ghost Brother and Skull Water are widely taught at colleges and universities. He is known internationally for his collection of Korean Folktales and is also an expert on Asian American and Korean literature, including North Korean comics and literature.

Heinz Insu Fenkl is a Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, where he currently teaches creative writing in addition to courses on Asian and Asian American literature and film. He was a member of the editorial board for Harvard University's Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture from its inception until 2017. He previously served as coordinator of the Creative Writing Program and was director of The Interstitial Studies Institute at SUNY New Paltz. He is currently a member of the editorial board for SIJO: an international journal of poetry and song. He has taught a wide array of creative writing, folklore, literature, and Asian and Asian American studies courses at Vassar College, Eastern Michigan University, and Sarah Lawrence College. He was also a core faculty member for the Milton Avery M. F. A. Program at Bard College and has taught at Yonsei University in Korea.

Fenkl received his A. B. in English from Vassar College and his M. A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. He was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where he began a project collecting narrative folktales and studied literary translation. He was also co director of the Fulbright Summer Seminar in Korean History and Culture. Fenkl studied in the Ph. D. Program in Cultural Anthropology at University of California, Davis. His areas of specialization were shamanism, East Asian narrative folklore, and ethnographic theory. Fenkl was raised in Korea and (in his later years) Germany and the United States. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and daughter.