Biography
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Bo-Kyung Kirby, M.A.
Instructor
Before she came to the United States in 1983, Bo-Kyung Kim Kirby pursued her first passion, Literature, in her native South Korea. She earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Korean Literature, doing her thesis work under the renowned writer Hwang Sun-Won.
After arriving in the U.S., Bo switched to the Computer Science field, earning a second Bachelor’s degree and studying in the Master’s program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She worked as a graduate research assistant there, co-authoring five research papers on distributed operating systems. She has taught Computer Science classes as an adjunct instructor at NKU since 1997.
Bo continues to write, in Korean. She has published a book of essays, translation of one of Noam Chomsky’s books, and dozens of newspaper columns. She trained in TaeKwonDo under Master Ahn Kyungwon and is a practicing fourth-degree black belt.
“Little known fact”—she has served as a supernumerary (non-singing extra) in several Cincinnati Opera productions, and even survived a fall into the orchestra pit during a rehearsal of Turandot.
After arriving in the U.S., Bo switched to the Computer Science field, earning a second Bachelor’s degree and studying in the Master’s program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She worked as a graduate research assistant there, co-authoring five research papers on distributed operating systems. She has taught Computer Science classes as an adjunct instructor at NKU since 1997.
Bo continues to write, in Korean. She has published a book of essays, translation of one of Noam Chomsky’s books, and dozens of newspaper columns. She trained in TaeKwonDo under Master Ahn Kyungwon and is a practicing fourth-degree black belt.
“Little known fact”—she has served as a supernumerary (non-singing extra) in several Cincinnati Opera productions, and even survived a fall into the orchestra pit during a rehearsal of Turandot.
