YOON Soo Ryon, Prof.

Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-5378

Phone(852) 26167477
Emailsooryonyoon@ln.edu.hk

8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun
Hong Kong

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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