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Name in Chinese
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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Projects
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Political Mobilization and Activism of Dance in Public Sphere, Seoul, 2014-2020
30/12/20 → 30/12/21
Project: Grant Research
Research output
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Book Review: Wonbon eomneun pantaji: peminiseuteu sigageuro ingneun hanguk hyeondaemunhwasa [Originless Fantasy: Reading Korean Modern and Contemporary Cultural History from Feminist Perspectives]
YOON, S. R., 4 Jan 2021, In: Seoul Journal of Korean Studies. 33, 2, p. 581-584 4 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Review article › Book review › peer-review
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Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea
YOON, S. R., 1 May 2020, In: positions: asia critique. 28, 2, p. 311-339 29 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Book Review: Embodied Reckoning: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress
YOON, S. R., 1 May 2020, In: Theatre Survey. 61, 2, p. 286-288 3 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Review article › Book review
Activities
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Book Launch: World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth (J. Daniel Elam)
Soo Ryon YOON (Moderator), Daniel ELAM (Speaker) & Shruti KAPILA (Discussant)
3 Dec 2020Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Other Participation at Scholarly Events
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Blackness and anti-colonial performance in South Korea, 1920s-40s
Soo Ryon YOON (Speaker)
21 Jul 2020Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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Racing the Real: Realism and Racial Representation in 20th Century Korean Theatre
Soo Ryon YOON (Invited speaker) & Kayla Ji-Hyon YUH (Invited speaker)
2 Oct 2020Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations