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Personal profile
Chinese Name
尹水蓮
Biography
Soo Ryon Yoon teaches and writes about contemporary performance, dance history, and racial politics in South Korea. She is currently working on her first monograph, Choreographing Affinities: Performing Koreanness and Blackness in the Global Era which explores choreographic articulations — both staged and quotidian — of raced bodies of Koreanness and blackness in the context of global Afro-Asian relations. She received PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University. Before coming to Lingnan, Soo Ryon taught at Yale University as a postdoctoral associate and visiting lecturer in the Council on East Asian Studies and the East Asian Languages and Literatures department. More information about her work and teaching can be found at sooryonyoon.wordpress.com.
Research interests
Contemporary performance in South Korea, global Afro-Asian relations, critical race theory, performance ethnography, dance history, East Asian cultural history, migration and globalization, sexuality and gender performativity
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Research Output 2012 2019
Looking Back and Look Forward in Dêgèsbé
YOON, S. R., 2019, In : GPS: Global Performance Studies. 2, 2Research output: Journal Publications › Policy or Profession paper
Open Access
Dance
Gesture
Choreographers
Dance Company
Burkina Faso
Performative Turn in Cultural Studies, Then and Now
YOON, S. R., DE DIOS, A. & CASTILLO BAUTISTA, R., 1 Jun 2019.Research output: Other Conference Contributions › Conference Paper (other) › Other Conference Paper › peer-review
cultural studies
performance
conversation
spontaneity
guerrilla
Theatrics between Life and Death: Performing the urban history of Garibong-dong, Seoul in Camp or the Place that Became a Lion by Miwansung Project and OLTA
YOON, S. R., Sep 2019, In : Performance Research. 24, 4, p. 118-124 7 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed)
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Seoul
Lion
History
Activities 2019 2019
- 1 Organising / Participating in Conference or Event
Performance Studies x Cultural Studies Colloquium : Cultures in Motion, Performance in Transit
Hyunjung LEE (Organiser), Paul RAE (Organiser), Chiayi SEETOO (Organiser), Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Discussant), Stephen CHAN (Discussant), Anjeline DE DIOS (Discussant), Soo Ryon YOON (Moderator)22 Feb 2019
Activity: Involvement in Conferences / Events (Research-related) › Organising / Participating in Conference or Event