Affiliated Faculty
Professor of East Asian Studies
Chungmoo Choi
Professor of East Asian Studies
Modern Korean culture and society, critical theory, gender, literature and film, religion, popular culture, post-colonial discourse
Associate Professor of History
David Fedman
Associate Professor of History
Japan and Korea, environmental history, historical geography, global history, modern war
Professor of English
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Professor of English
Asian/American Literature, Film, Poetry
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Modern and contemporary Korean art and design, global design history, economic development and globalization, critical and media theory
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Feminist and Gender Studies, Feminist Epistemologies and Theories, Cultural Studies, Political Economies of Globalization, Asian American Literature, Ethnic Studies, Visual Cultures
Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies
Kyung Hyun Kim
Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies
east asian cinema, modern Korea, critical theory, Korean literature
Professor of Anthropology
Eleana Kim
Professor of Anthropology
kinship, personhood, environments, ecology, nature, Korea
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy
Jae Hong Kim
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy
land use, economic development, local/regional planning & governance, location choice & urban system modeling
Professor of Asian American Studies
James Kyung-Jin Lee
Professor of Asian American Studies
Disability Studies, Health/Medical Humanities, Illness, Memoir, Mental Illness
Professor of Asian American Studies
Julia H Lee
Professor of Asian American Studies
Asian American literature and culture, Ethnic American literature and culture, early twentieth-century African American literature, American railroad, Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese exclusion, Angel Island poems, Maxine Hong Kingston
Professor of English
Jerry Won Lee
Professor of English
language & globalization
Professor of East Asian Studies
Serk-Bae Suh
Professor of East Asian Studies
Modern Korean Literature
Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies
Ka-eul Yoo
Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies
literary and cultural studies in Global Asias, disability justice, public health policy, war/empire studies, critical Korean studies
Contact Center for Critical Korean Studies
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