AFFILIATION
- Ph.D. Candidate, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2020 - present
PUBLICATIONS
- “Imagining South Korea through Musical Borrowing: Agust D’s “Daechwita” in K-pop.” Journal for Asian Music 56 (1), 2025, Forthcoming.
- Review of Katherine In-Young Lee Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form, (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), 2021, in European Journal for Korean Studies 21 (1). peer-reviewed.
- “Migration and Transmission of Intangible Culture and its Musical Change: The Case of North Korean Mask Dance Drama, Ŭnyul.” 2019. The Research of Performance Art and Culture (Society of Korean Performance Art and Culture) 39, 197-221. (Peer-reviewed)
- “Comparative Analysis between the Earliest Taech’wit’a (Royal Military Processional Music) Recording and Contemporary Taech’wit’a Performance, Focusing on T’aepyǒngso (a conical wind instrument) Melody.” 2019. Master’s thesis, Ewha Womans University
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, ROUNDTABLES, INVITED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS
2025
- Presenter, "Sonic Routes to an Ancestral Homeland: The Bi-polarized Timbre of Kayagǔm by Two Zainichi Virtuosic Artists in Cosmopolitan Seoul" at the Association for Asian Studies, Ohio, Mar, 2025.
2024
- Presenter, "Echoes of Authority: Agust D’s “Daechwita” and the Legacy of South Korean Aesthetics in K-Pop, " K-Pop: Musical Production and Consumption, East Asian Studies, Yale University, Nov 14-15, 2024.
- Presenter, "Who is Musically Powerful? Modernized Hierarchy in Practicing Korean Chamber Music in a Professional Court Music Ensemble (Chǒngaktan) Rehearsal in Seoul", Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Virtual Meeting, Oct 17-26, 2024
- Presenter, "Sonic Routes to an Ancestral Homeland: The Bi-polarized Timbre of Kayagǔm by Two Zainichi Virtuosic Artists in Cosmopolitan Seoul" at the 12th World Congress of Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies, Vietnam, Oct 16-18, 2024
- Presenter, “Fight for Victory! The Combative Spirit of P’iri in the Korean War Poems/Songs and Records” Korean Literature Association Annual Conference, Ohio State University, USA, Oct 11-12, 2024
- Organizer and Presenter, "Contingencies on Meta-Narrative for Asian Musical Performances Practice, Pedagogy, and Participation in the US," "The Nexus of Institutional Transformation and Legitimacy: Expanding World Music Ensemble to Pan-Asian Communal Music-Making Space in Ann Arbor,” at AAS-in-Asia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Jul 9-11, 2024
- Discussant for a paper, "Oral Performing Arts and Pansori in Russia (Гурьева Анастасия Александровна, Saint Petersburg State Univ.)," "Practical Explorations for Globalization in Pansori Studies," The 40th Anniversary International Conference of the Pansori Society, Seoul, Republic of Korea, May 25-26, 2024
2023
- Speaker, "Korea-Historical Aspect of taech’wit’a,” Round table discussion on “Asian Music and Traditions” at Watkins Hall, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, Center for Chinese Studies, and Nam Center for Korean Studies, Sep 16, 2023
- Presenter, "The Visceral Sound of P’iri: Gender Essentialism in a Korean National Music Competition,” Paper presentation at Community of Scholars Symposium, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Sep 15, 2023
- Organizer and Speaker, “Creative Liberalism, Musical Hybridity, and Selling Seoul in Inalchee’s “The Tiger is Coming,” at the International Association of the Study of Popular Music, Minnesota, USA, June 30, 2023
- Presenter, "Expressing Dual Identities via the Performance of Ŭnyul Masked Dance Drama” at the Association for Asian Studies, USA, online., February 17, 2023
- Speaker, "Political Landscape of Silencing Women via Media Presentation in Seosan Land Reclamation Juvenile Camp,” at Workshop #4: Can the More-Than-Human Speak?: Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of Post-Anthropocentric Histories. Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, January 20, 2023
2022
- Presenter and Co-organizer, “Troubling the Transpacific Waters of K-Pop: Exploring the Impacts of the Pandemic, Race, and Gender,” "Imagining South Korea through Musical Borrowing: Suga’s “Daechwita” in K-pop,” at the 67th Joint American Musical Society, Society for Ethnomusicology and Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, New Orleans, USA, November 12, 2022
- Presenter, "Imagining South Korea through Musical Borrowing: Suga’s “Daechwita” in K-pop,” at the 7th Symposium of the Study Group on Musics of East Asia, International Council for Traditional Music, online, May 13, 2022. (Awarded the student prize)
- Presenter, "Gender Association in Traditional Korean Sound in Hallyu,” at Hanyang University and online, Seoul, Korea, April 15, 2022
- Presenter, "Gendering the “Rightful” Sound: Discipline, Power, and Misogyny in P’iri Musicianship,” at Association for Asian Studies, Hawai’i, Honolulu, March 24-27, 2022
- Presenter, "Transforming “Otherness” to “Belongingness” for Multiracial Alliances,” hybrid roundtable discussion on “Teaching in Times of Anti-Asian/AAPI Violence,” Northeast Modern Language Association’s 53rd Annual Convention, hybrid, March 11, 2022
2021
- Presenter, "Musical Borrowing for Career Advancement: Taech’wit’a in K-pop,” at the New England Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference, Harvard University and online, USA, December 6, 2021
- Presenter, "Sonic Hegemonic Masculinity in Traditional Korean Musicianship Training and Practice,” at the 70th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington and online, USA, October 31, 2021
GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS
- North East Asian Council Grant, Association for Asian Studies
- Kyujanggak Junior Fellowship, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Mar 01, 2024, A SideProject on "Commanding Sound of Spectacular Blowing and Hitting (Taech’wit’a): Was Military Marching and Royal Procession in the Late Chosŏn Inseparable?
- 21st Century Fellowship, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Society for Ethnomusicology, Jul 31, 2023
- Summer Project for the Center for World Performance Studies, Literature, Science, and Art, University of Michigan, May 06, 2023,
- Glenn McGeoch Memorial Scholarship, Selected on the basis of outstanding graduate student instructor of undergraduate music majors, Department of Musicology, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of Michigan, April 21, 2023,
- IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, May - August 2023
- Excel Enterprise Grant, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Eileen Weiser EXCEL Fund, University of Michigan, March 24, 2023
- Rackham International Student Fellowship Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, November 31, 2022
- Society for Ethnomusicology Student Travel Award Society for Ethnomusicology, August 4, 2022
- ICTM MEA 2022 Symposium Student Prize, Awarded for an exceptional paper presented at the 7th Symposium on the Study Group of Music of East Asia in 2022, A Study group on Music of East Asia, International Council for Traditional Music, June 9, 2022
- Undergraduate Mentor and Community Outreach, Nam Center for Korean Studies, LSA, University of Michigan, Sep 22, 2022
- Rackham Pre-Candidate Research Grant for Summer 2022, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, June 16, 2022
- SeAh Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarships, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, April 18, 2022
- Pony Chung Fellowship for Young Korean Studies Scholars, Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University, August 2, – 6, 2021(KST).
- Musicology Department Summer Funding, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of Michigan, June-August 2021/2022
- Rackham Language Training Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, June-August 2021
- Graduate Fund Fellowship, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of Michigan, September 2020 – April 2021
- Fulbright Foreign Student Program Scholarship, Korean American Education Commission, Fulbright Korea, September 2019 – July 2021
Teaching Experience
- Winter 2025, Musicology346-History of Music, "Musics of South Korea in the Shadow of the US," as an instructor of the record
- Graduate Student Instructor (2021-2023, 2024-)
- Javanese Gamelan Ensemble Class (ENSEMBLE407), History of US Music (MUSISOLOGY140), Introduction to Musicology (MUSICOLOGY 139)
- Guest lectures: Korean Music Theory at Graduate Student Seminar on Nov 4, 6, 2024, at the University of Michigan
Academic/Community Service
- 2022- present, Newsletter Editor, Association for Korean Music Research, Society for Ethnomusicology, USA.
- 2024-2025, Co-chair, Society for Music Research, Graduate students organization at the University of Michigan
- 2024-2025, Chair for NEKST conference in 2025, Nam Center for Korean Studies graduate fellow, LSA, University of Michigan
- SEM 21st century fellowship committee in 2024
- Member, Time-to-Degree Planning Committee, Dept. of Musicology, U-M
- 2021- present, Music Director/Mentor, Sinaboro (A Korean Percussion Ensemble), undergraduate student organization at U of M
Academic Membership
- Society for Ethnomusicology, Association for Korean Music Research
- Association for Asian Studies
- Association for Korean Studies in Europe
- Korean Literature Association