Hye Jean Chung is a Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Global Communication at Kyung Hee University. After receiving her PhD at UC Santa Barbara, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in the Comparative Media Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her book, Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production (Duke University Press, 2018), examines transnational film practices and digital production pipelines. Her primary research interests include digital cinema, media technology, production pipelines, visual effects, animation, transnational cinema, global Hollywood, Korean cinema, East Asian cinema, and documentary films. 

During her academic career, Chung has received research grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea and her home institution. She has also received writing awards from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies: Best Essay in an Edited Collection Award, Dissertation Award, and Student Writing Award. She has published articles in the the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Visual Studies, Journal of Popular Film and Television, CLCWeb,  The Velvet Light Trap, and others.