Mingyo Sung

she/her/hers

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

220 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Activities

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Guest Lecture: “Girls on the Square: A History of the Korean Feminist Movement.” Undergraduate Course “Korean Language and Cultures” (Prof. Sang-Keun Yoo), Department of English, Marist University, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 2025.
Conference Presentation: “When Mourning Fails: The Sexual Apparatus and Queer Ontology in Kim Mella.” The Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA) 2025 (Virtual), September 2025.
Conference Presentation: “Haunted Bodies, Broken Words: The Uncanny Reconstruction of Fantasy.” The 56th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, Philadelphia, PA, March 2025.
Conference Presentation: “The Rise of Superpowered Girls in Mid-2010s Korea: Negotiating Between Fantasy and Reality through The Witch: Part 1 (2018) and Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017).” The 46th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), Orlando, FL, March 2025.
Conference Presentation: “The Metamorphosis of Death and Life: Focusing on the Concept of Impersonal Death in Deleuzian Philosophy.” The Research Institute of Won-buddhist Thought’s 40th Conference, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea, April 2021 (in Korean).

Awards

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International Scholar Travel Award, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), 2025
CAITY Travel Award, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), 2025
Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of Gender Studies, Sogang University, 2019-20
Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of Philosophy, Sogang University, 2018-19
Summa Cum Laude, Sogang University, 2018