Affiliated faculty and librarians
Research associates
Affiliated graduate students
Research Interests: twentieth century South Korea, gender, women's literature, life writing, literary translation
Zhuoran "Ran" Deng, PhD Candidate, Centre for Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Sexual consent, transpacific critique, gender and queer theory, political philosophy, media studies
Dissertation (Working) Title: A Biopolitics of Sexual Consent: Queer Temporalities and Asian Femininity
Seongpil Jeong, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Studies
Research Interests: Modern Korean History, Culture of Capitalism, Everyday Life, Consumption and Environment
Dissertation Title (TBD): Vacation Boom in the Yusin era: The Politics of Consumption in 1970s South Korea
Research Interests: Empires, Colonialisms, East Asia, Manchuria, Mobility, Racial Politics and Politics of Representation
Dissertation Title: The Land of Bandits: Outlaws, Mobility, and Racial Politics in Manchuria, 1905-1945
Aliju Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Studies
Dissertation Title (Tentative): Decadent Translations and Transgressions in Transwar Korean Literature
Aliju Kim's dissertation examines Decadence as an aesthetic mode in literary narratives that relate to discourses of modernity and modernization, empire, and capitalist expansion. Her other interests include memory, space-time, and family sagas.
HaRyung Kim, PhD student, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Gender, Military, State, Post-Cold war
Research Interests: Carceral spaces, postcolonialism, disability, queer geographies, animal geographies, East Asia
Dissertation Title: Leper’s Paradise: Carceral Politics of Cooperative Village and Rural Reform in South Korea
Joonsik Kim, PhD student, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Political, Economic, Comparative-historical Sociology, Financialization, and the Politics of Credit.
Research Interests: modern and contemporary Korean history; film and media studies; decolonization and postcolonial theory; Cold War liberalism; Asian American and diaspora studies
Soomin Kim, PhD student, Department of History
soominkyle.kim@mail.utoronto.ca
Research Interests: East Asia; Human/non-human animal relations; Colonialism; Cold War liberalism
Research Interests: Immigration policy, social services, welfare state, multiculturalism, immigration attitudes
Grayson Lee, PhD student, Faculty of Information
Research interests: Transpacific studies, the Cold War in Asia, the South Korean digital culture industry, and legacies of race, war, and mass violence
Juyeon Lee, PhD Candidate, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Research Interests: Occupational Safety and Health, Work and Health, Health Inequality, Public Health System
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation in South Korea
Sangah Lee, PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research Interests: voice, silence, violence, activism, gender studies, Korean traditional and popular music culture
Dissertation Title: Unexpected Voice: The Sonic Collective of the 2016-17 South Korean Candlelight Vigils
Seo Young Lee, PhD student, Adult Education and Community Development (OISE)
Research Interests: undocumented immigrants, the social construction of citizenship, adult education, statelessness.
Research Interests: North Korean History, Modern Korean History, Infrastructure, Everyday Life
Dissertation Title (TBD): Electrifying North Korea: The Politics of Electrical Infrastructure in Cold War North Korea
Research Interests: Work and Labour, Social movements, Gender, Platform Economy
Dissertation Title: The Contested Making of Gig Workers: A Comparative Study of Global Capital in the Gig Economy in Seoul and Toronto
jessica.morgan.brown@mail.utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Colonial Korea, language and literature, vernacularization movements
Do-Hyeong Myeong, PhD student, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Decolonization, Literature, Archives, Korean Diaspora
Samuel Yoon, PhD Candidate, Women & Gender Studies Institute and Sexual Diversity Studies
Research Interests: Asian American Critique, Queer Diaspora, & Queer Performance
Dissertation Title: Defamiliarizing Violence: Performance and a Queer Diasporic Critique of Asian American Attachments