Michael Pettid is Professor of Premodern Korean Studies in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and also serves as the Director of the Translation Research and Instruction Program at Binghamton University (SUNY). He received his PhD in Premodern Korean Literature from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has published widely on Premodern Korean literature, history, religions, and culture including monographs on the history of Korean cuisine (Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History, 2008) and an annotated translation and analysis of a seventeenth century novel (Unyŏng-jŏn: A Love Affair at the Royal Palace of Chosŏn Korea, 2009). He is also a co-editor of Confucianism and Women in Chosŏn Korea: New Perspectives (with Youngmin Kim, SUNY Press, 2011) and the forthcoming Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times, with Charlotte Horlyck (University of Hawaii Press). His current research projects include a translation of the Kyuhap ch’ongsŏ (Encyclopedia of Women’s Daily Lives), a co-edited anthology of premodern Korean prose, and an agrarian history of premodern Korea.