Miami University

Visiting Assistant Professor

Asian/Asian American Studies (AAA) is an interdisciplinary minor in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies. Taught two courses: "Introduction to Asian/Asian American Studies" and "Asia and Globalization."

Harvard University

Lecturer

Full-time lecturer of History & Literature. Advised three high honors senior theses, one junior tutorial, and taught an HL90 seminar in "Asian American Cultural Studies."

Wellesley College

Visting Lecturer

Visiting lecturer for the American Studies Program and Writing Program. Taught introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses in Asian American Studies.

University of Maryland

Lecturer

Winter 2019 Courses (Online)
- Asian American Film

Fall 2018 Courses
- Introduction to Asian American Studies
- Techno-Orientalism
- Independent Research

Summer 2018 Courses (Online)
- Introduction to Asian American Studies

Spring 2018 Courses
- Asian American Media
- Asian American Performance
- Asian American History

Fall 2017 Courses
- Introduction to Asian American Studies
- Asian American History
- Independent Study

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As a participant in BCNC's Boston Marathon fundraising program, I singlehandedly raised $12,700, the most anyone has ever raised in Team BCNC's history. I did so by using a variety of platforms and tapping into my national network.

The de/militarised frontier: the Korean demilitarised zone, the American DMZ border guard, and US liberal empire

Critical Military Studies

On 31 August 1949, the National Security Council prepared an internal draft that would later inform the USs' foreign policy towards Cold War Asia. About a decade later, after the 1950–53 Korean War and the establishment of the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the popular US Army-produced documentary TV series The Big Picture released an episode entitled ‘Korea and You.’ It starred a fictionalised American soldier stationed near the Korean DMZ. My essay reads these two texts together. In doing so, I show how NSC’s ‘Asia’ draft, which informed official US foreign policy towards Cold War Asia for decades to come, proposed a self-reflexive, transactional, and sentimental form of militarisation that would hopefully move decolonised Asia to align with the US. As I will historicise, this liberal form of militarisation found a material and discursive home just a few years later in the ‘neutral’ space of the DMZ. I call this union of the NSC’s vision of a multilateral militarisation and the DMZ’s multinational neutrality, ‘de/militarisation.’ I then use ‘de/militarisation’ as my transnational analytic to close-read the racialized, gendered, and sexualized meanings produced by ‘Korea and You.’ In doing so, I argue that the perception of the US as a violent, racist, and isolated empire – alert to its enemies, yet alone in the world – was partly transformed through a shared borderland and an imperfect border guard whose sentimentalized rehabilitation by his South Korean hosts created the appearance of an alert and inclusive guardian of Cold War Asia.

The de/militarised frontier: the Korean demilitarised zone, the American DMZ border guard, and US liberal empire

Critical Military Studies

On 31 August 1949, the National Security Council prepared an internal draft that would later inform the USs' foreign policy towards Cold War Asia. About a decade later, after the 1950–53 Korean War and the establishment of the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the popular US Army-produced documentary TV series The Big Picture released an episode entitled ‘Korea and You.’ It starred a fictionalised American soldier stationed near the Korean DMZ. My essay reads these two texts together. In doing so, I show how NSC’s ‘Asia’ draft, which informed official US foreign policy towards Cold War Asia for decades to come, proposed a self-reflexive, transactional, and sentimental form of militarisation that would hopefully move decolonised Asia to align with the US. As I will historicise, this liberal form of militarisation found a material and discursive home just a few years later in the ‘neutral’ space of the DMZ. I call this union of the NSC’s vision of a multilateral militarisation and the DMZ’s multinational neutrality, ‘de/militarisation.’ I then use ‘de/militarisation’ as my transnational analytic to close-read the racialized, gendered, and sexualized meanings produced by ‘Korea and You.’ In doing so, I argue that the perception of the US as a violent, racist, and isolated empire – alert to its enemies, yet alone in the world – was partly transformed through a shared borderland and an imperfect border guard whose sentimentalized rehabilitation by his South Korean hosts created the appearance of an alert and inclusive guardian of Cold War Asia.

Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo’s Salt Transfer Cycle (Journal Article)

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.

Korean American conceptual and performance artist Michael Joo's three-decade career has been preoccupied with (re)figuring the ways Asian American bodies constitute and challenge Western narratives of national progress. Joo's provocative performances draw our attention to the material elements—salt, sweat, urine—that make up and are excreted by the body. As Terry Park argues in his essay "Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo's Salt Transfer Cycle," "Joo's body of work—along with the work of his body—illustrates the search for an alternative language to articulate the hidden geo-historical traffic between the trauma of Cold War interventions in Asia and the trauma of growing up Asian in the US."

The de/militarised frontier: the Korean demilitarised zone, the American DMZ border guard, and US liberal empire

Critical Military Studies

On 31 August 1949, the National Security Council prepared an internal draft that would later inform the USs' foreign policy towards Cold War Asia. About a decade later, after the 1950–53 Korean War and the establishment of the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the popular US Army-produced documentary TV series The Big Picture released an episode entitled ‘Korea and You.’ It starred a fictionalised American soldier stationed near the Korean DMZ. My essay reads these two texts together. In doing so, I show how NSC’s ‘Asia’ draft, which informed official US foreign policy towards Cold War Asia for decades to come, proposed a self-reflexive, transactional, and sentimental form of militarisation that would hopefully move decolonised Asia to align with the US. As I will historicise, this liberal form of militarisation found a material and discursive home just a few years later in the ‘neutral’ space of the DMZ. I call this union of the NSC’s vision of a multilateral militarisation and the DMZ’s multinational neutrality, ‘de/militarisation.’ I then use ‘de/militarisation’ as my transnational analytic to close-read the racialized, gendered, and sexualized meanings produced by ‘Korea and You.’ In doing so, I argue that the perception of the US as a violent, racist, and isolated empire – alert to its enemies, yet alone in the world – was partly transformed through a shared borderland and an imperfect border guard whose sentimentalized rehabilitation by his South Korean hosts created the appearance of an alert and inclusive guardian of Cold War Asia.

Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo’s Salt Transfer Cycle (Journal Article)

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.

Korean American conceptual and performance artist Michael Joo's three-decade career has been preoccupied with (re)figuring the ways Asian American bodies constitute and challenge Western narratives of national progress. Joo's provocative performances draw our attention to the material elements—salt, sweat, urine—that make up and are excreted by the body. As Terry Park argues in his essay "Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo's Salt Transfer Cycle," "Joo's body of work—along with the work of his body—illustrates the search for an alternative language to articulate the hidden geo-historical traffic between the trauma of Cold War interventions in Asia and the trauma of growing up Asian in the US."

DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border (Book Review)

Pacific Affairs

The de/militarised frontier: the Korean demilitarised zone, the American DMZ border guard, and US liberal empire

Critical Military Studies

On 31 August 1949, the National Security Council prepared an internal draft that would later inform the USs' foreign policy towards Cold War Asia. About a decade later, after the 1950–53 Korean War and the establishment of the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the popular US Army-produced documentary TV series The Big Picture released an episode entitled ‘Korea and You.’ It starred a fictionalised American soldier stationed near the Korean DMZ. My essay reads these two texts together. In doing so, I show how NSC’s ‘Asia’ draft, which informed official US foreign policy towards Cold War Asia for decades to come, proposed a self-reflexive, transactional, and sentimental form of militarisation that would hopefully move decolonised Asia to align with the US. As I will historicise, this liberal form of militarisation found a material and discursive home just a few years later in the ‘neutral’ space of the DMZ. I call this union of the NSC’s vision of a multilateral militarisation and the DMZ’s multinational neutrality, ‘de/militarisation.’ I then use ‘de/militarisation’ as my transnational analytic to close-read the racialized, gendered, and sexualized meanings produced by ‘Korea and You.’ In doing so, I argue that the perception of the US as a violent, racist, and isolated empire – alert to its enemies, yet alone in the world – was partly transformed through a shared borderland and an imperfect border guard whose sentimentalized rehabilitation by his South Korean hosts created the appearance of an alert and inclusive guardian of Cold War Asia.

Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo’s Salt Transfer Cycle (Journal Article)

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.

Korean American conceptual and performance artist Michael Joo's three-decade career has been preoccupied with (re)figuring the ways Asian American bodies constitute and challenge Western narratives of national progress. Joo's provocative performances draw our attention to the material elements—salt, sweat, urine—that make up and are excreted by the body. As Terry Park argues in his essay "Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo's Salt Transfer Cycle," "Joo's body of work—along with the work of his body—illustrates the search for an alternative language to articulate the hidden geo-historical traffic between the trauma of Cold War interventions in Asia and the trauma of growing up Asian in the US."

DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border (Book Review)

Pacific Affairs

Visual Politics and North Korea: Seeing is Believing (Book Review)

US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University

The de/militarised frontier: the Korean demilitarised zone, the American DMZ border guard, and US liberal empire

Critical Military Studies

On 31 August 1949, the National Security Council prepared an internal draft that would later inform the USs' foreign policy towards Cold War Asia. About a decade later, after the 1950–53 Korean War and the establishment of the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the popular US Army-produced documentary TV series The Big Picture released an episode entitled ‘Korea and You.’ It starred a fictionalised American soldier stationed near the Korean DMZ. My essay reads these two texts together. In doing so, I show how NSC’s ‘Asia’ draft, which informed official US foreign policy towards Cold War Asia for decades to come, proposed a self-reflexive, transactional, and sentimental form of militarisation that would hopefully move decolonised Asia to align with the US. As I will historicise, this liberal form of militarisation found a material and discursive home just a few years later in the ‘neutral’ space of the DMZ. I call this union of the NSC’s vision of a multilateral militarisation and the DMZ’s multinational neutrality, ‘de/militarisation.’ I then use ‘de/militarisation’ as my transnational analytic to close-read the racialized, gendered, and sexualized meanings produced by ‘Korea and You.’ In doing so, I argue that the perception of the US as a violent, racist, and isolated empire – alert to its enemies, yet alone in the world – was partly transformed through a shared borderland and an imperfect border guard whose sentimentalized rehabilitation by his South Korean hosts created the appearance of an alert and inclusive guardian of Cold War Asia.

Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo’s Salt Transfer Cycle (Journal Article)

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.

Korean American conceptual and performance artist Michael Joo's three-decade career has been preoccupied with (re)figuring the ways Asian American bodies constitute and challenge Western narratives of national progress. Joo's provocative performances draw our attention to the material elements—salt, sweat, urine—that make up and are excreted by the body. As Terry Park argues in his essay "Eternal Return of the Saline Body: Michael Joo's Salt Transfer Cycle," "Joo's body of work—along with the work of his body—illustrates the search for an alternative language to articulate the hidden geo-historical traffic between the trauma of Cold War interventions in Asia and the trauma of growing up Asian in the US."

DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border (Book Review)

Pacific Affairs

Visual Politics and North Korea: Seeing is Believing (Book Review)

US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University