The Institute for Korean Studies Presents:
Ellie Choi
Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
Brown University
"Forgotten Memories of Korean Modernity: Yi Kwangsu's 'The Heartless' and New Perspectives in Colonial Alterity"
Flyer forthcoming
Abstract: forthcoming
Bio: Ellie Yunjung Choi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Media and Culture at Brown University. Her current research interests include the transnational consumption of Korean media, the Seoul city, cyberspaces, visual culture, and dislocation. She is the author of “The City and the Image: Seoul’s Recovery of Its Own Past,” The Metropole Series:The Urban History Association (March, 2018) and “Forgotten northerly memories: Yi Kwangsu and his alterities in The Heartless,” The Journal of Asian Studies (August 2018), and is currently writing a book-length project, “The Laptop Nation and the Global Consumption of Korea.” She teaches classes on Korean film and media, urban space, northern Korea, and modern cultural history. Her first book project, Space and National Identity: Yi Kwangsu's Vision of Korea during the Japanese Empire, explored the relationships among colonial space, cultural nationalism, and historical identity. Dr. Choi was Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Cornell University, and has also taught at Smith, Dartmouth, Yale, Yonsei, and Ewha Colleges.
Free and open to the public
This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
