Biography
Zachary Gottesman received his B.A. degree in International Studies from American University, his M.A. in Korean Studies from Korean University and is currently a PhD student in East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine where he is the recipient of the Center for Critical Korean Studies graduate fellowship. He researches contemporary Korean popular culture, including cinema, animation, art, music, games, and internet communities. He has published in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and has presented research at the Association for Asian Studies conference, the World Congress of Korean Studies, the Next Generation of Korean Studies Conference, and the Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures among others. He is currently working on a project on Korean hyperrealism in sculpture as well as a history of rotoscoping in animation.