The Chicago Literacy Studio

Kay Kim is a media scholar and a recent graduate from UChicago. She has been teaching English reading and writing for 7 years. Over the years as a tutor, she has noticed how literacy has been changing in the new digital media age, with the advent of scrollable social media and ChatGPT. Her academic research focuses on redefining human agency in an era of overflowing AI-generated content, especially its ethical implications on visual culture and society.

Lector & Tutor @ UChicago “Little Red Schoolhouse” Writing Program (2025~)

College Admissions Consultant @ Primestone Academy (2023~)

SAT RW Tutor @ Platinum Academy (2023~)

ELA Tutor @ IvyEd (2023~)

English RW Teacher @ Bluecube Academy (2023)

Private Tutor (2018~)

Conference Presentations

“Lost in Translation: What Is Lost When Prompts Become Tokens in AI Image Generators,” 7th Annual Transcending Boundaries Research Symposium, Chicago, IL, May 2025.

“Machine-aided Creativity in the Age with Artificial Intelligence,” Society For Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, April 2025.

“Performance Captured Through Media Art: Dongnae Crane Dance,” Graduate Student Poster Presentation, Association for Asian Performance, Atlanta, GA, 2024.

“A Closer Look: AI-Assisted Text-to-Image and Image-To-Text Processes,” Panel Discussant, Art History & Artificial Intelligence Colloquium, University of South Dakota, Virtual, February 2024.

Publications

Book Chapter

“Contextual and Cultural Limitations of Text-to-image Generators: The Case of East Asia,” in Art History and Artificial Intelligence, ed. Leda Cempellin and Melissa Geiger (London: Palgrave) (forthcoming 2026)

Book Review

Review of Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India, by Jisha Menon, Asian Theatre Journal (forthcoming 2025)

The University of Chicago, Humanities | MA | 2025

Korea University, Media and Communication | BA | 2023

UCLA, Film, Television, and Digital Media | Exchange Student | 2020

Daewon Foreign Language High School | High School Diploma | 2018