Sangsook LEE-CHUNG
Ph.D. Candidate

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:
South Korean Intellectuals in the Era of Globalization: The National and Cultural Subjectivities of “Geese-Dad” Professors

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. Yuryong 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.

Jung Wook PYO
Ph.D., 1st year

Research Interests:
Pre-modern Korean and Chinese History, Intellectual and Cultural History

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, 2009
M.A., East Asian Studies (Chinese History), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 2005
B.A., Chinese Philosophy and Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 2003

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

Research Interests:
Cinema studies; cultural studies; transnationalism

Dissertation Title (proposed):
Cosmopolitan Cinephilia: College Students and Translational Practice in Contemporary South Korea

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

Publications and Presentations:
Publications:
"Imagining English Education in Korean Cinema, " The Korea Fulbright Infusion, 2 (2009): 42, 55.

Presentations:
"More than Running in Marathon (dir. Chong Yunch’ol, 2005)," presented at the Fulbright Forum, Seoul, South Korea, March 27, 2009.

"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.