Publications

“Channeling Alterity: Toward a Theory of Shamanic Audiovisualization.” Theory, Culture & Society. OnlineFirst, September 10, 2026; volume/issue assignment pending. DOI · Concept

“Pain, Suffering, and Justice: Transnational Narratives of Comfort Women in Twenty-Two and Spirit’s Homecoming.” In Private Memories, Public Discourses. The Traces of the Perpetration in Spaces, Testimonies and Archives. Peter Lang, 2026.

“Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White.” positions: asia critique 32, no. 3 (2024): 685–711. DOI

“在法律之门前开辟虚拟空间：从《熔炉》到《嘉年华》的‘熔炉效应’.” 区域 Remapping, no. 2 (2024). Journal published by Tsinghua University.

“Rhizome in the Shadows: Transplantation of Korean Running Man in the Rise of Screen-capitalism.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34 (2020): 73–87. DOI · Concept

“Bang Bang Bang—Nonsense or an Alternative Language?: The Lingualscape in the Chinese Remake of I Am a Singer.” China Perspectives, no. 3 (2019): 37–45. DOI · French version

“Running Man: Korean Television Variety Program on the Transnational, Affective Run.” Telos, no. 184 (2018): 163–184. Co-authored with Kyung Hyun Kim. DOI

“When Sacrifice Becomes Possession: Maternal Self-Erasure and Failed Separation in Bong Joon-ho’s Mother” Asian Studies Review (under review)

“Spatiotemporal Sutures: Screening National Integration in National Treasure” Asian Studies Review (under review)

“Agency-Preserving Personalization: A Theory of When Generative AI Strengthens or Displaces Self-Regulated Learning” Educational Psychologist (under review)

“Beyond the Displacement Imaginary: Artificial Intelligence as an Externalized Other and the Case for Human Judgment” Ethics and Information Technology (under review)

Review of Jinah Kim, Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2019). The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 1 (2021): 260–261. DOI

Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories. London: Routledge, 2023. Co-translator (Korean → English).

Izabella Goikhman, “Soviet-Chinese Academic Interactions in the 1950s: Questioning the ‘Impact Response’ Approach.” In Thomas P. Bernstein and Huayu Li, eds., China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–present. The Chinese University Press, 2019. (English → Chinese)

Laurence Schneider, “Lysenkoism and the Suppression of Genetics in the PRC 1949–1956.” In Thomas P. Bernstein and Huayu Li, eds., China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–present. The Chinese University Press, 2019. (English → Chinese)

“How Korea Quietly Reshaped Chinese Pop Culture.” Sixth Tone: Fresh Voices from Today’s China, July 19, 2023.

Executive Director & Translator, I Am Not Brave. Korean National University of Arts & Beijing Film Academy; supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism.