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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
- 1 Finished
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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 : Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy. By Emily Wilcox. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 322 + 31 illus. $34.95 Pb.
YOON, S. R., Jul 2021, In: Theatre Research International. 46, 2, p. 255-256Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
Open Access -
ElastiCity : Performance Studies and Theme Parks
BLACK, T. C., CHUA, S., LIM, M., LAINE, E., RACHEV, R. & YOON, S. R., May 2021, In: Global Performance Studies. 4, 1, 50 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method
Emily WILCOX (Organiser) & Soo Ryon YOON (Organiser)
14 May 2021 → 15 May 2021Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Organize Conferences or other 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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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
Press / Media
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Why some Korean women are boycotting Squid Game
29/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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Why some Korean women are boycotting Squid Game
27/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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Why some Korean women are boycotting Squid Game
27/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer