Faculty

Sunyoung Park is an associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Interim Director of the USC Korean Studies Institute.

Her research areas include modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture; postcolonial studies; transnational anarchism and Marxism; feminism and gender studies; science fiction and technoculture studies.

She teaches various courses on Korean literature and culture, gender and feminist theories, and East Asian science fiction.

Esther K. Chae is an assistant professor in Performance at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.

Her research area is in acting.

The courses she teaches are Intermediate Acting I & II, Actor’s Instrument (Movement), English Language Dubbing, and Principles, Pedagogies and Practices: An Equity and Inclusion Playbook for the Dramatic Arts.

Youngmin Choe is an associate professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Her research areas are in Korean film and media.

She teaches courses on Korean film, Korean visual and cultural studies, and transnational Korean cinema.

Hye Jin Lee is a clinical assistant professor of Communication at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Her research area includes pop culture, critical media studies, media industry, fandom, gender, race, & sexuality in media, K-pop, and Korean entertainment and media.

She teaches courses on Interpreting Popular Culture, Social Media and Communication, Youth and Media, The Evolution of K-pop, Visual Culture and Communication, Media Consumption.

Eunju Na is a master lecturer of Korean in East Asian Languages and Cultures in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Her research area is in Korean language.

She teaches various Korean language courses at USC.

Seojin Park is a lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultures in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Her research area is in Korean language.

She teaches various Korean language courses at USC.

Jinhee Choung is a lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

Her research area is in East Asian politics.

She teaches courses on politics of East Asia, political change in Asia, and world poverty.

Jinhee Choung is a Clinical Professor in the Rossier School of Education in the Psychology in Education concentration.

Her expertise is in multicultural counseling with particular focus on Asian American families, intergenerational conflict in immigrant families, and cultural identity development of multicultural adolescents and young adults.

She teaches courses on research methods courses in master’s and doctoral degree programs. She has also taught Asian American educational experiences and Asian American psychology.

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.

Jane Junn is a professor in Political Science and International Relations and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

Her research areas include Asian American politics; political behavior; public opinion; gender and politics.

She teaches courses on Elections; Public Opinion; Asian American Politics; Ethnic Politics; Women and the Law, etc. and more.

Jonathan Markowitz is an associate professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is also a Co-Founder and Co-PI of the US-Asia Grand Strategy Pre-doctoral Fellows Program.

His research focus includes grand strategy, resource competition, and the political economy of security.

The courses he teaches are Guns, Money and Oil; Nuclear Weapons, Great Power Competition, and Grand Strategy; Qualitative Research Design; and Climate Change and Conflict.