Abelmann, Nancy
Associate Vice Chancellor; Professor Research (Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields); Humanities Department University of Illinois Nancy Abelmann is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research (Humanities, Arts and Related Fields) and the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She co-directs the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI). She has published books on social movements in contemporary South Korea (Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement, University of California Press, 1996); on women and social mobility in post-colonial South Korea (The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk and Class in Contemporary South Korea, University of Hawai'i Press, 2003); on Korean America (Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots, with John Lie, Harvard University Press, 1995); and on South Korean film with Kathleen McHugh, South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and Nation (Wayne State University Press, 2005); and on Korean American college students (The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation, Duke University Press, 2009). With psychologist Sumie Okazaki she is writing Domestic Toil: How Korean American Teens and Parents Make Family Work, based on field and survey research in Chicagoland. She is a co-editor of forthcoming No Alternative? Experiments in South Korean Education (Berkeley: Global, Area, and International Archive / University of California Press, 201) and of in-progress South Korea's Education Exodus: Early Study Abroad, English, and the Global and Fragile Cosmopolitans: Sketches from South Korean Youth. Choi, Kyeong-Hee Associate Professor Modern Korean Literature University of Chicago Kyeong-Hee Choi is Associate Professor of modern Korean literature at the University of Chicago. Her research interests encompass gender, colonialism, democratization, censorship and propaganda. Her writings appeared in Poetica, Public Culture, and Colonial Modernity in Korea, as well as in Korean-language journals and publications. Her book entitled Beneath the Vermilion Ink: The Making of Modern Korean Literature under Japanese Colonial Censorship will be coming out from Cornell University Press. Hughes, Ted Associate Professor East Asian Department Columbia University Jeong, Kelly Y. Assistant Professor Department of Korean Studies University of California, Riverside Kelly Jeong received her degree in Comparative Literature from UCLA. She is an assistant professor of Korean Studies at UCR, and her areas of teaching and research specialization are modern and contemporary Korean literature, Korean film, literary criticism and cultural studies. Kim, Chang-Nam Professor Department of Media and Communications Sungkonghoe University CV Kim, Suk-Young Associate Professor Theatre University of California, Santa Barbara Suk-Young Kim is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), which explores how the state produced propaganda performances intersect with everyday life practice in North Korea. She is also the co-author (with Kim Yong) of Long Road Home: A Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Columbia University Press, 2009). Currently, she is working on several book projects, including Nikolai Gogol's usage of Ukrainian Folklore in his short stories, border crossing between two Koreas, and Korean TV Dramas and the Globalization of Asian Media. Her research has been acknowledged by the International Federation for Theatre Research New Scholar's Prize (2004), the American Society for Theater Research Fellowship (2006), the Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship (2006-7), Hellman Faculty Fellowship (2008), and the Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship (2008, 2010). Before joining UCSB faculty, she taught Korean Studies at Dartmouth College. Kim, Youna Associate Professor Global Communications The American University of Paris Youna Kim is Associate Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, recently joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (2005, Routledge); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (2008, Routledge). She is currently completing two book projects (1) Diasporic Daughters: Transnational Mobility, Media and Identity of Asian Women> (2) The Precarious Self: Women and the Media in Asia. Her research interests include media audiences, women, television and everyday life, diaspora, identity, cultural and educational consequences of globalization, 'de-westernizing' media and cultural studies. Kwon, Boduerae Professor Korean Literature Dongguk University 1969년 서울에서 태어났고, 서울대학교 국어국문학과와 같은 과 대학원을 졸업했다. 지금까지 지은 책으로 『한국 근대소설의 기원』『연애의 시대: 1920년대 초반의 문화와 유행』『1910년대, 풍문의 시대를 읽다』가 있으며, 『아프레 걸Apres-girl 사상계를 읽다: 1950년대 문화의 자유와 통제』를 비롯한 여러 권의 공저가 있다. 최근에는 ‘3•1 운동의 문화사’라는 주제를 중심으로 하되 ‘4•19April uprising의 정신사’를 함께 다루면서 공부를 하고 있으며, 정치적 사건의 사회•문화적 맥락을 읽어내고 그 의미를 정신사적으로 해명하는 데 관심을 두고 있다. 현재 동국대학교 교양교육원 조교수로 근무 중이다. Kwon, Donna Associate Professor Department of Ethnomusicology University of Kentucky Lee, Dong Yeun Professor Korean Traditional Arts Korean National University of Arts Lee, Jin-Kyung Associate Professor Literature University of California, San Diego Lee, Namhee Associate Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles Pai, Hyung-il Professor East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies University of California, Santa Barbara CV Park, Jungsun Professor Asian-Pacific Studies California State University, Dominguez Park, Sunyoung Assistant Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures University of Southern California Seo, Hyun-Suk Professor Communications Yonse University Seo, Young-Chae Professor Hanshin University |