Jiyoon Pyeon

she/her/hers

pyeon002@umn.edu

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

428 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Ph.D. Candidate,

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Moving Image Studies Graduate Minor

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2020-
Graduate Minor: Moving Image Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
M.A.: Humanities - Cinema & Media Studies Option, University of Chicago, 2017-2018
B.A.: Television & Film, Ewha Womans University, 2013-2017

Specialties

Contemporary South Korean Cultural Studies
Korean Cinema and Pop Culture
Korean Genre Films
Post Korean New Wave
Korean Film and Media Industries
K-drama, K-Pop, and Transnational Fan Culture
(Trans)national Cinema
East Asian Cinema
Film History and Criticism
Film Style and Aesthetics
Film Genre History, Theory, and Translation

Activities

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Activities

Research

University Colloquium: “Translating Darkness: Spatial Allegories and Film Noir Aesthetics in Asura: The City of Madness (2016),” SNU Junior Fellow Colloquium Series, International Center for Korean Studies, SNU Kyujanggak Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, March 2024.
—.: “Navigating Vernacular Genres: A New Perspective on Contemporary South Korean Cinema,” AMES Colloquium Series 2023, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, October 2023.
Conference Presentation: “Korean Wave in U.S. Colleges: Korean Pop Culture, Korean Language and Their Influences,” The 11th World Congress of Korean Studies: Korean Culture Shared with the World, The Academy of Korean Studies, Gyeonggi, South Korea, October 2022.
—.: “First Love and the Lingering Pain: The Collective Memory of the Park Chunghee’s Regime in Contemporary Korean Melodrama Film The Classic (2003),” 2022 Korean Studies Research Network Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, October 2022.
—.: “Beyond Ideology, Beyond War: New Cosmopolitanism and Post-Ideological Desire in Jarring Combination of The Korean War and Musical Genre in Swing Kids (2018),” 71st Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 2022.
—.: “Contemporary South Korean films’ Changing Trends on The Topic of North Korea,” Demystifying the Opaque: Academic Rigour, Epistemology, and the Study of North Korea, Korean Studies Graduate Workshop 2022, Korea Studies Research Hub, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 2022.
—.: “Melodrama in the Urban Environment: The Cinematic Trauma Recovery and the Emotional Structure,” Emotion: A Response to Our Environment, Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, April 2022. .
—.: “Permission to Speak: The Disguised West-Centrism in the Discomfort toward BTS’s Full-English Songs,” Change, Adaptation, and Perseverance, 10th Annual World Languages Graduate Organization Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 2022.
—.: “Film Melodrama and Spatiality: The Urban Trauma and the Architectural Recovery in the Emotional Space of Seoul and Jeju,” Spectral Spaces: Exploring Spatiality & the Engagement of Form, World Languages & Literatures Graduate Conference, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, March 2022.
—.: “Genre Characteristics of the Korean Horror Renaissance: Based on In-Depth Analysis on Whispering Corridors (1998) and A Tale of Two Sisters (2003),” Korean Women's Association for Communication Studies (KWACS) Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 2018.

Professional

Interview with Korean Film Director Kim Sungsoo, Summer 2022

Awards

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Awards

Harold & Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study, Endowed fellowship (One of two awarded each academic year) Graduate School Fellowship Office, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2023-24
SNU Kyujanggak Junior Fellowship, International Center for Korean Studies, SNU Kyujanggak Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 2023
The Mary Griggs Burke Graduate Support in Japan and Korean Studies, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Spring 2023
Rose Travel Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities for Creative Research in Asia, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2022
Graduate Research Partnership Program fellowship for Summer 2021, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2021
Moving Image Studies Fellowship, Moving Image Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2020
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Fellowship, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2020-25
Dean's Fund Award, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2018
Magna Cum Laude, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, 2017
Dean's List Fall 2016 · Fall 2015 · Fall 2014 · Spring 2014 · Spring 2013, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Courses

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Courses

AMES 3556 Korean Film and Media (Instructor; Provisional in Summer 2024)
KOR 1011 Beginning Korean 1 (Instructor)
KOR 1012 Beginning Korean 2 (Instructor)
KOR 3021 Intermediate Korean 1 (TA)