4.16 연대가 가만두지 않겠다 한 주장이 이거였구나... www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Our job is to teach students the critical thinking and literacy skills to realize why this Forbes headline is dumb.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time. it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!

It's live now! Please visit our Pitchables page at this link and if you have a site, magazine, podcast, or other platform for scholars to pitch their public work to, please let me know in comments or via email at bwandread@gmail! blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

The creators of ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ have dismissed the idea of making a live-action adaptation: “It’s really hard to imagine these characters in a live-action world. It would feel too grounded. So totally it wouldn’t work for me.”

이스라엘 군인들은 사막 밤의 추위에도 일부러 강하게 냉방기를 틀어 활동가들이 추위에 떨게 만들었습니다. 교도소에 도착하자 남성 의사 앞에서 남녀 모두 옷을 벗게 한 뒤 신체 검사를 했습니다. 마실 물을 받지 못해, 활동가들은 세면대에 있는 물을 마셔야 했습니다.

엄마 포카인 듯 포카 아닌 포카 같은 명함 팠대여 😂💚 feat. 베베 툥야, 툥가사리, 해군 레고 ᑦ(◕ ◡ ◕⁎)ᐣꕤ*.ﾟ Mommy has new photo cards--I mean, business cards! 😂💚 feat. Bebe Tyongya, Tyonggasari, and Navy Lego ᑦ(◕ ◡ ◕⁎)ᐣꕤ*.ﾟ

Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

최종_최최종_진짜최최최종!

운동을 하자

올해 노벨 평화상 (aka 노벨 전쟁상) 수상자인 베네수엘라의 마리아 코리나 마차도는 자국에 미국의 군사개입 및 이스라엘의 네타냐후 정권의 군사개입을 요청하고 끌어들인 친미 시오니스트로, 라틴아메리카의 극우 지도자들 및 시장주의자들과 결탁한 극우 인사다. 일부 미디어에서 그려지는 글로벌 남반구의 여성 민주주의 투사와는 거리가 한참 멀다.

It's true!! Our #FSNNA2025 virtual #FanStudies conference program is LIVE! (subject to possible minor changes) ▫️Program 🔗 fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna-25/ And if you haven't registered yet to attend, there's still time! ▫️Registration 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/fanst...

gen z slang my students taught me today

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Did you know we have lots of other events going on during our #FSNNA2025 #FanStudies Conference in addition to our headliners? For ex/ we've got a Q&A event happening Thurs Oct 23 (9-10am ET) with @pbooth81.bsky.social titled "Publishing with the Bloomsbury Fan Primer Series"

Read books purely for fun this weekend. It felt wonderful. 😌📚

교육부 산하 국립국제교육원에서 특수 외국어 배워보기 무료 강의가 있다나봐요. 올해 하반기에 25개 언어에 대해 132개 강좌 개설이라고... m.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/Am...

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

행사도 무사히 잘 끝났고, 코비드와 플루 백신도 맞았으니 이번 주말은 뒹굴뒹굴 누워 있어야지 🫠

Many thanks to everyone who attended Dr. Youngju Ryu's talks! And thank you, Dr. Ryu for visiting ASU and sharing your wonderful research! We learned so much and cannot wait for your forthcoming book! 🫶🏻🙌🏻🫰🏻

WTF category. In this case, my university, USC, provides cadavers to the US Navy to train IDF medical personnel. The cadavers are unclaimed bodies: people for whom no one was willing or able to pay for burials. What an afterlife after a difficult life--to have your body used without your consent.

2017년부터 현재까지도 사립대학 USC 가 의료목적으로 의대에 기부된 시신을 미 해군에 팔아먹고 미 해군은 시신들을 이스라엘 점령군의 수술 트레이닝을 위해 이용해 왔다는 취재가 나옴. 미국의 군산학 복합체의 존재 목적이 이런 거구나.

제주 지역에서 추석을 앞두고 제주4·3 역사를 왜곡하는 펼침막이 내걸렸지만, 이를 철거할 방법이 없어 희생자 유족들이 분노하고 있습니다.

Can't wait to read Bora Chung's new book Midnight Timetable translated by @antonhur.com ! 📚✨

Beyond the Sewol is now available for order and shipping via all vendors! All royalties from this book will be donated to Sewol non-profits.🎗️

Our panel "K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity: When Fans Control the Narrative" has been accepted for the Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org 2026 annual conference! Many thanks to @math48.bsky.social for organizing the panel and hope to see you in Vancouver next March! 🙌🏻

Looking forward to discussing Han Kang's Human Acts with our PhD candidate & translator Sue Hyon Bae! Please drop by if you are in the area! 🌵🌴☀️ We would love to see you! 🤗

Join us for a roundtable reflecting on the decade since Feminism Reboot (2015), a turning point in feminist and queer politics and scholarship in South Korea. Together, we’ll reflect on what has shifted, what has stalled, and what futures we might imagine. Register here: bit.ly/46jg871

이번주도 화이팅! 🌵🌴☀️

My editor forwarded me the beautiful and generous endorsements that fan culture experts wrote for my K-Pop Fandom book. I know they are very busy folks, so I am grateful for the time they took to read and respond to my work. 💚 press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po...

#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️

CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Smut" and "Lore" #FanStudies docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Same -- I have been doing mostly in-class close reading and writing reflections this semester and it is going well so far.

2. More in-class assignments, less homework (or lower stakes homework). I have students engage in discussion/applied activities during class and then hand-write exit ticket reflections before leaving. This gives me a sense of what they understand and gives them time to practice thinking and writing.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

New special issue of Popular Communication Queer Women's Fandom #FanStudies www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...

Regardless of where the Trump admin lands on H1-B visas, the absolute shit-show they created this weekend is yet another deterrent to convincing smart, qualified people to come work in the United States:

Y'all Dr. #JeongAreum has published an awesome book about the #Sewol Tragedy. Dr. Jeong is one of the foremost thinkers at the intersection of #performancestudies and #Korean Studies, get the book. [U of Hawai'i Press] uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/beyond... (shipping now)

Film International Special Issue Calls for Papers: ‘Transnational Horror Culture in Cinema’ This themed issue of Film International will explore the complex relationship between horror culture per se and cinematic expression. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 👉ow.ly/XRiK50WZfAf

It's out! 🫣 Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2025)

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

It's Taco Tuesday! 수업 끝나면 타코 사먹어야지 🌮🌮

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Arts criticism is vitally important, whether it's for TV, movies, comic books, or anything else. It's more than a binary good/bad; it's a way of contextualizing the emotional, political, or other themes of a piece as well as laying out connections and comparisons through deep historical knowledge.

1. Writing at night and feeling like the rest of the world is asleep and still 2. Hearing birds chirping when waking up 3. Watching a pink and red Arizona sunset 4. A good cup of pour over coffee (made by me) 5. Old K-pop songs from my childhood

This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.

🌈 'Queer Throughlines' traces transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s—mapping solidarity across Seoul & LA, from anti-war protests to church resistance, showing how queer movements weave community & political change across borders. bit.ly/4lRt1el @uofmpress.bsky.social

For nearly three decades, South Korea has used cultural exports to establish its own identity abroad beyond its proximity to nuclear-armed North Korea. But the newest K-pop phenomenon was made abroad and exported to South Korea, and the movie has taken the country by storm. wapo.st/4mXEqul