David Young Kim

Associate Professor of History of Art

306 Jaffe Building

David Young Kim teaches and researches Southern Renaissance art, with focus on the issues of art literature, transcultural exchange, and material culture. He received his B.A. in English and French literature from Amherst College (1999) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard (2009), in addition to attending the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7. Before joining the Penn faculty in 2013, he was a postdoctoral faculty fellow (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (2009-2013) and a visiting faculty member at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo in Brazil (2011-2013). In May 2017 he delivered the Tomàs Harris Lectures at the University College London. He recently received the Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching for his contributions to undergraduate education.