Kim received his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, under the direction of the late Leslie A. Fielder who first announced the Death of the Novel in the early sixties.
Kim erhielt seinen Ph.D. in Anglistik an der State University of New York in Buffalo, unter der Leitung des verstorbenen Leslie A. Fielder, der Anfang der 60er-Jahre als Erster den „Tod des Romans“ verkündete.