Samuel Perry (born October 30, 1969) is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University.
He is also the translator of Kang Kyŏng-ae 강경애's novel From Wŏnso Pond as well as a collection of stories Five Faces of Feminism by Ineko Sata 佐多稲子, aided by a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.
[2][3] This book will retell a story of cultural production during the Korean War, which involves the experiences of communist party activists, Japan-resident Koreans, "returnees" from the colonies, former soldiers and sex workers.
According to his Brown University webpage, Perry is "interested in the role culture plays in political change"; his academic work "aligns itself with a body of scholarship that has reassessed activist formations around the world, and seeks to understand the strategies by which marginalized people have contested dominant cultures."
His most recent research in this area has brought him into conversation about cultural and political connections between Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, where he recently attended Vietnamese language school while on sabbatical.