Chung-kang KIM
Ph.D Candidate

Research Interests:
Korean history and literature, Cinema Studies (theory and criticism),Colonial and post-colonial South Korean popular culture, Gender Studies,Contemporary South Korean culture and cinema,Transnational circulation of film in South/East Asia and Hollywood

Dissertation Title:
" Co-operated Nation: The Politics and Desire of Popular Cinema in Authoritarian South Korea (1953-1974)"

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures (Modern Korean History and Culture), UIUC, 2001
B.A., Modern Korean History, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1998

Publications and Presentations:
Publications:

"Kundae kyonghom kwa namsong hwantachi: ttakchipon sosol ul chungsim uro” (The Experience of Modernity and the Male Fantasy: Focusing on Six-Pence Novels in Colonial Korea), in Yi Yong-mi ed., Ttakchipon Sosol iran Muotinka? (What Is A Six-Pence Novel?) Seoul: Minsokwuon, forthcoming.

"The Popular Novel: Confusion and Fantasy," Journal of Popular Narratives 15 (2006): pp. 89-119.

Selected Presentations:
"From Codification to Transgression: 'Gender Comedy Films' in 1960s South Korea," paper presented at the British Association for Korean Studies Conference, Cambridge University, UK, September 8-10, 2008.

"Screening Resistance, Consuming Democracy: Revisiting the Early 1960s 'Well-Made' Comedy Films," paper presented at the Korea Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 10-11, 2008.

"The First South Korean Comedy Film: Akkuk meets Hollywood," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 19-21 October 2007.

"The Social Meaning and Function of 'Pleasure'--Focusing on Early 1960s South Korean Comedy Film," paper presented at the Film Studies Association of Korea (FISAK) Seminar as a part of Chunju International Film Festival, April 22-23, 2007.

"The Popular Novel: Confusion and Fantasy," paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Popular Narrative, Yonsei University, Seoul, April 15, 2006.

"The Politics of Performing Gender in 1960's South Korean Film," paper presented at the 7th Annual Graduate Symposium of Gender and History, UIUC, March 9-11, 2006.

Research Interests:
Modern and contemporary Korean culture and history with a special focus on the cultural identity of Korean intellectuals, families, and women; Migration, Globalization, Transnationalism, and Cultural Citizenship in East Asia; East Asian Modernity

Proposed Dissertation Title:
Intellectuals, Globalization, and the Transformation of National and Cultural Subjectivities: "Goose-Dad" Professors in South Korea

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
B.A. Journalism (Sociology minor), Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Publications and Presentations:?

Publication:
"Korean Early Study Abroad Students: How Do They Narrate Their Personhood as an ESA Student at the U of I?" Archived Online in IDEALS @ UIUC, Ethnography of the University Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 28, 2008. URL: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/3499.

Translation:
Richard Dalby ed. Yury?ng Iyagi I, II (The Ghost Stories I, II), trans. Sangsook Lee, Seoul: Book World, 1998 (Orig. Richard Dalby ed. The Virago Book of Ghost Stories. London: Virago, 1987).

Presentations:
"intellectuals, Nationalist Masculinity, and Korea's Education Exodus," paper presented at Conference on South Korea's Education Exodus (Chogi yuhak): Risks, Realities, and Challenges, Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, March 28-29, 2008.

"Korean Early Study Abroad Students: How Do They Narrate Their Personhood as an ESA Students at the U of I?" presented at Ethnography of the University Initiative Student Conference, Ethnography of the University Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, November 29, 2007.

"Changing Perspectives of Chinese Diaspora and Chinese Identity," paper presented at Globalization, Self, and Identity in Greater China Project Presentation, The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and the Freeman Fellow Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 1, 2007.

"'The Wings': Another 'Diary of the Superfluous Man,'" paper presented at The Fifth Graduate Symposium on Korean Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies,
University of California at Berkeley, April 21-22, 2006.

Yoonjeong SHIM
Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:
Premodern Korean History, Intellectual and Cultural History

Dissertation Title:
Constructing “Korea”: Ch?ng Tasan and the Nineteenth-Century Challenge

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2001

Josie SOHN
Ph.D., Candidate

Fulbright I.I.E. Fellow 2008-2009

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
B.A., Comparative Literature (minor: East Asian Languages), UCLA

Research Interests:
South Korean film culture, transnationalism, feminism

Presentations:
"Die Winterreise to Requiem: Death of a Displaced Man in Winter Wanderer (dir. Kwak Chigyun, 1986)," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007.

"Jouissance of the Feminine Mirror: A Sutured Traveler in My Mother, the Mermaid," paper presented at the 55th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 2006.

"Non-Churchist Performance of a South Korean Street Evangelist in a Cyber Christian Cinema: A Discussion on Barefooted Messenger Ch’oe Ch’unson," paper presented at the Fifth Graduate Symposium on Korean Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, April 21-22, 2006.