Bo-Mi Choi, B.A. Ph.D.

Lecturer on the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University

Born in Seoul, South-Korea, Bo-Mi Choi grew up in Hamburg, Germany, where she completed the Grundstudium in Jura before pursuing her B.A. in Philosophy at Calvin University in the United States. In 2009, she received her Ph.D. in Modern European Intellectual History from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno and Thomas Mann and their American exile during World War II that focuses on the intersection of loss, melancholia and creativity in their works.

Since 2004, she has been residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she taught from 2004-2011 in Social Studies, an interdisciplinary undergraduate honors concentration in the social sciences at Harvard University. She then worked as the Senior Producer of the Vienna Project at Harvard for which she co-produced a documentary feature titled The Burning Child (2019). Subsequently, she served as the Director of the Digital Law Learning Lab (dL3) at the Institut für Rechtswissenschaften at BOKU. In the fall of 2021, she returned to Social Studies where she again supervises undergraduate theses and teaches courses in critical theory and continental philosophy. Her current research interest involves the critical study of technology with a particular focus on AGI (artificial general intelligence) and its social, political and existential ramifications.