ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Global Communication, Kyung Hee University, March 2024 - present
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Global Communication, Kyung Hee University, March 2019 - present
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Global Communication, Kyung Hee University, March 2013 - February 2019
· Chair, School of Global Communication: 2024-
· Director of Cultural Studies, School of Global Communication: 2014-2016; 2020-2022
· Director of Graduate Studies, School of Global Communication: 2018-2020
· Research Fellow, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies: 2018-2024
Visiting Professor, Center for Critical Korean Studies, University of California, Irvine, Winter-Spring Quarters, 2024.
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Film Studies, King’s College London, Spring Semester, 2020
Visiting Scholar, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall Quarter, 2016
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-2012
Teaching and Research Areas: Digital Media, Media Technology, Media Criticism, Production Studies, Transnational Cinema, National Cinema, Global Hollywood, Korean Cinema, East Asian Cinema, Film Theory, Film History, Film Genres, Animation, Documentary Cinema, Asian American Cinema
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recipient of Dissertation Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2012)
M.A., Cinema and Media Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Coursework, Comparative Literature, Seoul National University
B.A., French Language Education, Seoul National University
Minor: English Language and Literature
Summa cum laude
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
"Escape from Mogadishu (2021): The Geographical Expansion of Korean Cinema." Journal of Literature and Film 25:2 (2024)
“Digital Reincarnation: The Mediated Bodies and Multiple Lives of The Mummy.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 62.5 (2023)
“Envisioning a Transnational Future in Space Sweepers (2021).” Journal of Literature and Film 23:3 (2022)
“The Silenced and Spectral Voice of Women Narrators: Textual Anxieties in Brief Encounter and Letter from an Unknown Woman,” Feminist Studies in English Literature 29:1 (2021)
“Conflict between Creators and Censors: Hollywood Self-Regulation and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).” Journal of Literature and Film 21:3 (2020)
“Performing the Global: The Mediated Mobility of Virtual Cosmopolitans.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21:7 (2019)
“An Economy of Bodily Violence: Fragmented Bodies and Porous Borders in Korean Cinema.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 47:1 (2019)
“Unhomely Spaces and Transnational Networks of Kinship in Coin Locker Girl (2015) and Missing (2016),” Journal of Literature and Film 18:4 (2017)
“The Missing Picture (2013): Multimedia Memoryscapes in Documentary Film,” Journal of Literature and Film 17:2 (2016)
“The Re-Animation of the Digital (Un)Dead, or How to Regenerate Bodies in Digital Cinema,” Visual Studies 30:1 (2015)
· Reprinted in Animation: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018)
“Death, Rebirth, Materiality, and Movement: A Spatial and Semiotic Analysis of a Transmedia Assemblage,” Journal of Criticism and Theory 19:2 (2014)
“The Identity Crisis of Christie Love: Situating ABC’s Get Christie Love in 1970s Network Television,” Journal of American Studies 46:1 (2014)
“‘Once You Go Black’: Performative Acts of ‘Blackness’ in Contemporary Cinema,” English and American Cultural Studies 14:1 (2014)
“Conversing With Specters in Bontoc Eulogy: A Ghostly (Re)Telling of History,” Journal of Literature and Film 15:1 (2014)
“Filling in the ‘Lacunae’ of History: Assemblage of Collective Memory and Testimony in Regret to Inform,” Journal of Literature and Film 14:4 (2013)
“Vocal Women in Detour and Raw Deal: Narrative Gaps and the Female Voice in Film Noir,” Feminist Studies in English Literature 21:3 (2013)
“Media Heterotopia and Transnational Filmmaking: Mapping Real and Virtual Worlds,” Cinema Journal 51:4 (2012)
· Recipient of Student Writing Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2011)
“Kung Fu Panda: Animated Animal Bodies as Layered Sites of (Trans)National Identities,” The Velvet Light Trap 69 (2012)
“Spectral Bodies and Uncanny Effects: Cosmopolitan Anxieties in Shutter,” Spectator 31:1 (2011)
“Cinema as Archaeology: The Acousmêtre and the Multiple Layering of Temporality and Spatiality,” Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 1 (2011) http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu.
“The Host and D-War: Complex Intersections of National Imaginings and Transnational Aspirations,” Spectator 29:2 (2009)
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
“Introduction,” “Global Visual Effects Pipelines: An Interview with Hannes Ricklefs,” and “Virtual Assistance: An Interview with Andrew Norman Wilson,” Media Fields Journal 2 (co-editor of themed issue on “Media, Labor, Mobility with Athena Tan), 2011. http://mediafieldsjournal.org/
Book Chapters
“Local Nodes in Global Media Networks: The Korean Remake of BBC’s Life on Mars,” From Squid Game to Life on Mars: Translating and receiving Korean media in the UK and British media in South Korea. Jonathan Evans, Jinsil Choi, and Kyung Hye Kim, eds. Routledge, 2025.
“Beyond the Digital Surface: Uncovering Material Traces of Labor and Location,” Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, Britt Salvesen, Staci Steinberger, eds. DelMonico Books & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
“Media Heterotopias and Science Fiction: Transnational Workflows and Transgalactic Spaces in Digitally Composited Ecosystems,” Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema, Jennifer Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells, eds., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
· Recipient of Best Essay in an Edited Collection, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2017)
“Reclamation of Voice: The Joint Authorship of Testimony in the Murmuring Trilogy,” Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering, Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker, eds. New York: Routledge, 2009.
· Revised version reprinted as “The Murmuring Trilogy (1995-1999): Documentary Film as Testimony,” Rediscovering Korean Cinema, Sangjoon Lee, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.