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한국퀴어연극 아카이브 홈페이지가 오픈했습니다! 소개와 공지부터 보시는 걸 추천쓰 queertheater.kr

연초에 살 때만 해도 타이레놀 100알짜리 어느 세월에 다 먹나 했는데 어느새 바닥이 보이네 🫠 올해 머리 아픈 일이 많긴 했지 🥺 내년에 얼마나 행복해지려고 액땜한 걸까 🫢 모두 건강하고 좋은 일만 가득가득하길!

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

도서관 책 반납할 겸 연구실 정리할 겸 학교에 잠깜 들렀다. 학생들이 문 앞에 끄적이고 간 글귀와 선물해 준 해군 툥야 스티커는 볼 때마다 기분이 좋다. ᑦ(◕ ◡ ◕⁎)ᐣꕤ*.ﾟ 시즈니 교수 친구가 최근에 크리스마스 선물로 준 태용 open your eyes 쿠션도 너무 잘 어울린다. Thank you, Sam! 🌹💚

2026년 1분기 계획을 정리했는데, 애리조나를 베이스로 두고 한국, 뉴욕, 앨라배마, 밴쿠버, 태국, 홍콩에 갑니다. 얼굴 보여주세요! 🤗✈️ Will visit Korea, New York, Alabama, Vancouver, Thailand, and Hong Kong during the first quarter of 2026 -- hope to see you there! 🤗✈️

Excited to read Min Joo Lee's book Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race! 📚

Unboxing the advanced copy! 💚 💚 K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today 👩🏻‍💻 By Areum Jeong 📚 University of Michigan Press, February 2026 @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... 🙌🏻 Available for pre-order now!

Unboxing the advanced copy! 💚 💚 K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today 👩🏻‍💻 By Areum Jeong 📚 University of Michigan Press, February 2026 @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... 🙌🏻 Available for pre-order now!

Call for Papers: The Third International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference The Technologies of Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference University of Nottingham Ningbo China Date: 23–25 October 2026 live-china-uon.cloud.contensis.com/en/humanitie...

Sang Hea Kil is the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to pro-Palestinian advocacy. “All faculty should be able to protest all genocides without targeted punitive actions." - Sang Hea Kil

Many thanks to Maggie McGrath at ForbesWomen for inviting me to share my thoughts! www.forbes.com/sites/maggie...

채점 및 성적 입력도 끝났고 (2026년 8월까지 휴강!), 다음 학기 학과 행사 준비도 끝났고, 다음 학기 외부 특강 및 학회 스케줄도 대강 확정됐고, 승진 신청용 CV, Personal Statement, 그리고 임용 후에 낸 대표 실적 목록 작성도 끝났다. 이제 독서와 운동과 휴식을! 📚🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️☕️

Some of my favorite Korean films on Tubi: House of Hummingbird (2018): tubitv.com/movies/10000... Little Forest (2018): tubitv.com/movies/51268... Samjin Company English Class (2020): tubitv.com/movies/10003...

Attended an advanced screening of Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE yesterday and now I cannot get this song out of my head: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

가끔 동네에 지역 예술 축제가 열려 다양한 금속/도자/미술/유리 공예를 전시하고 판매하는 부스가 세워지는데, 가장 마음에 든 것들은 - 낡고 오래된 악기나 카메라 등을 업사이클링해서 예쁜 램프로 만든 부스, 🪕📷💡 - 역시 낡고 오래된 물건을 재미있는 로봇으로 개조시킨 부스, 🤖🦾 - 그리고 빈티지 시가 박스로 기타를 만든 부스였다. 🚬🪕 AI 시대에 내 구시대(?) 능력을 어떻게 새로운 시대에 적응시킬지 고민하는 나날이라 이런 게 더 끌린 걸 수도.

Gave three guest lectures on K-pop in the past three weeks -- many thanks to Dr. Jinsook Kim, Dr. Jang Wook Huh, and Dr. Ethan Segal for inviting me! I enjoyed talking to folks at Emory University, Seoul National University, and NCT Asia (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia)! 😄👩🏻‍💻

Classes are done and final projects are incoming -- so many interesting drawings, alternative endings, games, music composition, photo essays, podcasts, video essays and many more that each represent the student's understanding of Korean film -- looking forward to seeing all the finished projects!

종강! 2026년 8월까지 휴강! 우리 학교는 테뉴어/승진 전에 안식 학기를 한 학기 신청할 수 있는데, 안식 학기를 2026년 봄 학기에 쓸 예정이다. 그렇다고 해서 애리조나에 없는 것은 아니다. 수업에서만 잠시 해방될 뿐, 2월 말에 있을 학과 행사도 여전히 내가 준비 중이고, 5월까지 테뉴어/승진 관련 자료도 다 제출해야 한다. 확정된 학회/행사도 여럿 있고, 다른 학회/행사도 조율 중이고, 태용이도 보러 가야 하고... 애리조나에 베이스를 두고 다른 나라와 도시를 왔다 갔다 할 예정이다. 바쁘게 지낼 한 해가 기대된다.

"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026. In the meantime, here's the free digital version. >> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com

if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you

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New book chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Prideful Actions, Shameful Identities Hybridity in International K-pop Fan Communities Samantha James in: Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach #FanStudies books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...

Our panel K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity will take place Saturday, March 14, 2026, 2 pm-3:30 pm at the 2026 Association for Asian Studies annual conference! I will present on 1st gen K-pop fanfic that represents the Gwangju Uprising! See you in Vancouver! #AAS2026

I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely! universityvacancies.com/university-c...

I'm super excited to see that the Handbook of Digital Labour I co-edited - all 554 pages of it - is not available on the SAGE website. It's officially out in January next year. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...

I was a K-pop fan and theatre nerd since I was a kid, and kept attending and reading and talking and writing about stuff, and now people come to hear me talk or read about what I attended and wrote.

A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

서울대학교 이스라엘교육연구센터가 팔레스타인 땅에 유대인 이주 지원 사업 등을 해온 친이스라엘 단체 자금을 받아 운영된 정황이 드러났습니다. 이스라엘 대사관과도 ‘자금 지원’ 협약을 맺었습니다. 연구센터는 설립 당시부터 시온주의를 합리화할 수 있다는 학교 안팎의 우려를 샀습니다.

My forthcoming book on K-pop fandom looks at how parasocial relationships in K-pop today can be viewed as asymmetrical relationships -- never entirely one-way, but in many cases, two-way, asymmetric-yet-mutual attachments 💞

The Cambridge Dictionary has chosen “parasocial” as its Word of the Year for 2025.

#블친소 #일상계_블친소 신문과 미술관에 사진 하는 사람. 미술(관)을 사랑하며, 사진을 전공하고 미학을 공부합니다. 민주노총 금속노조 조합원입니다. 아래 사진은 제가 찍었습니다. <사진설명> 1. 노량진역 2. 서울시립미술관 <2025 타이틀매치 장영혜중공업 vs 홍진훤> 전시 전경 3. 노조법 2•3조 개정 투쟁 기자회견 4. 국회의사당

My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by @lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026! It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory. See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.

Now free. Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime U.S. permanent resident, Korean American scientist with a green card, is finally out of ICE detention after 3 months. Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

케이팝 책에 들어가지 않은 팬 노동은 인형(어느 챕터에 넣기도 애매해서... 끼워 넣으려면 챕터 3에 넣어야 하는데 애매해서 뺐다), 콘서트(예매와 준비 및 콘서트 당일 나눔, 떼창, 빠순 뒤풀이 및 토크 등... 이미 훌륭한 연구가 너무 많아서 굳이 내가 덧붙일 게 없다), 그리고 팬픽인데 (할 말이 너무 많아서 이건 따로 책으로 내야겠다), 인형에 대한 글은 내년 초에 Fashion, Style and Popular Culture를 통해 세상에 나온다. 툥야와 툥야 친구들, 학술지 게재 확정 축하! ᑦ(◕ ̫ ◕⁎)ᐣꕤ*.ﾟ

정말 오랜만에 할 일 다 해치우고 급하게 해야 할 일이 없는 주말- 운동하고 내년 학회 발제문 써야지 🌵🌴☀️

✨Hello friends, I'm launching #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social next month in Busan 🇰🇷 hosted by @thekpopprof.bsky.social at Pusan National University, Global Studies Department 📅 Dec 9 (Tues) 🕰️ 10:30am (GMT+9) 📍 PNU CEIT #203 & Zoom 📧 [email protected] (for Zoom link)

배우 오영수(81)씨의 강제추행 혐의가 1심 징역형 집행유예에서 2심 무죄로 뒤집힌 가운데, 이 사건 피해자가 “성폭력의 발생 구조를 굳건히 하는 데 일조하는 부끄러운 선고”라며 “사법부는 이번 판결이 사회에 어떤 메시지를 주는지에 대해 책임감 있게 성찰해주시길 간곡히 바란다”는 입장을 밝혔습니다.

Front and back cover 🥹💚

2025 American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Denver, CO ✈️ Flight delayed due to govt shutdown 🙁

미국은 벌써 크리스마스🎄

동네 산책 🌵🌈

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