AATK COLLOQUIUM - SPRING 2023

AATK COLLOQUIUM - SPRING 2023

Representations and Subversions of Patriarchy and Authoritarianism in Narrative and Cinematic Arts

March 31, 2023 (Friday) 8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)
Via Zoom (a link will be provided to the AATK members closer to the event)
Colloquium Committee: Hae-Young Kim (Duke University), Ji-Young Jung (Columbia University), and Kyung-Eun Yoon (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Moderator: Ji-Young Jung (Columbia University)

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

여성의 다시쓰기 혹은 다시읽기의 욕망 (Women’s Desire to Re-write or to Re-read)
Ji-Seung Roh (Incheon National University)
(Abstract to be followed)

The Rise of Rights Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea
Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University)
(Abstract to be followed)

About the Presenters

Ji-Seung Roh, Associate professor of Korean Literature in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Incheon National University, focuses her research on gender and class issues in modern Korean literature and cinema. She has authored a number of journal articles and books such as 여성의 다시쓰기: 고전소설을 읽는 욕망에 관하여 (도서출판 오월의 봄, 2022), 영화관의 타자들: 조선영화의 출발에서 한국영화 황금기까지 영화 보기의 역사 (앨피, 2016).

Hye Seung Chung, Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University, is a specialist of race and ethnicity in American popular culture, East Asian cinema, feminist film theory, and global media. She is the co-author of many books including Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2021) and Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2015). She is also the author of three more books and numerous journal articles.