Monica Cho
Monica W. Cho is a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute. Her research areas include modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture, women’s writings, madness, feminist ecological criticism, and gender studies. She received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine in East Asian Studies with emphases in Critical Theory and Feminist Studies. Monica is currently working on a book project (Reclaiming Our Time: Six Decades of Madness in Korean Women’s Writings) which examines how madness functions as a literary device and a method of feminist and ecocritical critiques of postwar South Korean modernity in Korean women writers.
Lindsay S.R. Jolivette
Lindsay Jolivette is a postdoctoral fellow in East Asian Languages and Cultures in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Her research areas include ecocinema, Korean cinema, Japanese cinema, speculative fiction genres, ecotheory, and environmental humanities.
The courses she teaches are Contemporary Korean Film and Culture and Introduction to East Asian Cinema and Culture.
Jeongin Lee
Jeongin Lee works at the intersection of sonic practice, embodied performance, and feminist inquiry, exploring how listening mediates political subjectivity, memory, and everyday life. Drawing on ethnomusicology and performance studies, her research attends to the relational, affective, and sensory dimensions of sonic experience in militarized and socially contested spaces. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in performance studies from Texas A&M University, and a B.A. in music from Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Her work has been recognized with the Vida Chenoweth Prize, an Honorable Mention for the Seeger Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Martin Hatch Prize from the Society for Asian Music.