Education
Vassar College.
Vassar College.
He is also an expert on North Korean comics. Fenkl is an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at State University of New York New Paltz, where he currently teaches creative writing in addition to courses on Asian literature, film, and folklore. He has taught a wide array of creative writing, folklore, literature, and Asian American studies courses at Vassar College, Eastern Michigan University, and Sarah Lawrence College.
He was also a core faculty member for the Milton Avery Master of Fine Arts Program at Bard College and has taught at Yonsei University in of Korea.
Fenkl received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Vassar College in 1982 and his Master of Arts in English/Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, in 1984. He was raised in of Korea and (in his later years) Germany and the United States.