2026   Negotiating Colonial Dilemma through Science Fiction: Translating Jules Verne in Early 20th-Century Colonial Korea. Journal of Korean Studies, 31/2 (forthcoming).

2023   Becoming a Ghost: Newtrospective Representation of Historical Violence Through Virtual Reality Media in Gina Kim’s Bloodless and Tearless. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 34/2: 118–139.

2023   From Patriarchal History to Korean Ethnoformalist Speculative Empathy: Squid Game and The School Nurse Files. International Journal of Korean History, 28/1: 215–43.

2023   Mobilities in Anglophone Science Fiction History: Time Travel, Cyclical Temporality, and Virtual Mobility. International Journal of Diaspora and Cultural Criticism, 13/2: 48–76.

2022   Cyberpunk Seoulŭl Nŏmŏ Silkpunk Jejuro: Cyberpunk-sok Tongyangŭi Tosi Chaehyŏn [From Cyberpunk Seoul to Silkpunk Jeju: Representation of Asian Cities in Cyberpunk]. Moonhwa/Gwahak[Culture/Science], 111: 73–87.

2021   Necropolitical Metamorphoses into Parasites: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host and Parasite. Science Fiction Film and Television, 14/1: 45–69.

2021   Miraerosŏŭi Tongyang, Tongyangŭi Mirae: Miguk Science Fiction-kwa Techno-Orientalism [Orientalized Future or the Future of Asia: American Science Fiction and Techno-Orientalism]. Tasi Kaebyŏk [Re-creation] 1/2: 18–35.
 

2026   Mythic Transfuturism: Asian Myth to Imagine Transformed Future Humans in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. Shaping Transfuturisms: Identity, Representation and Agency in Science Fiction Literature. University of Illinois Press (forthcoming).

2025   Han’guk ŭi Migugin kyosu, Miguk ŭi Han’gugin kyosu [A Korean professor in the U.S. and an American professor in Korea]. Han'gukhakŭi hyŏnjewa mirae [Korean Studies: Present and Future]. Minŭmsa. 

2023   Cyberpunk Seoulŭl Nŏmŏ Silkpunk Jejuro [From Cyberpunk Seoul to Silkpunk Jeju]. SF Prism: Geopolitics and Capital of Technology. Parkmunsa.

2024   Korean Science Fiction Now, Korean Literature Now 64/3: 36–41

2023   Introduction: Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34/2: 9–24

2023   “Those Left on Earth Are Equally Significant”: Sang-Keun Yoo’s Interview with Space Sweepers Director Sung-hee Jo, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34/2: 146–166.

2023   “This Inexplicable Complexity That Underscores Our Humanity”: Sang-Keun Yoo’s Interview with The School Nurse Files Director Kyoung-mi Lee, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34/2: 167–179.

2021   Science Fiction-ŭn Isip Ilseki Taehan Min'guk Sahoe-e ŏttŏn Message-rŭl Chulkka [Interview with Sherryl Vint]. Tasi Kaebyŏk [Re-creation] 1/4:78–92.

2021   Konggongŭi Sidaeesŏ Pujokŭi Sidaero: ‘Jjeomo’ wa ‘Narak’ sai [From the Age of the Public to the Age of Tribes: Between “0.5” and “Narak”]. Konggong Chŏngch'aek [Public Policy] 190: 74–80.

2025   Summer Faculty Research Grant, Marist University

2024   International Mobility Research Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea 

2024   Interfaith Faculty Fellows Grant, Marist University

2024   Summer Faculty Research Grant, Marist University

2023   Technology and Humanities Project Grant, University of San Diego

2022   International Opportunity Grant, University of San Diego

2022   Enhanced Student-Faculty Interaction Fund, University of San Diego

2021   Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, UC Riverside

2016–2020   Fulbright Fellowship, Institute of International Education

2016–2020   Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, UC Riverside

2020   Dissertation Year Program Fellowship, UC Riverside

2018   Graduate Student Scholarship, Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association

2012–2014   Graduate Student Instructor Scholarship, Seoul National University            

2025   Women’ and Gender Studies Essay Award, Northeast Modern Language Association

2023   Jamie Bishop Memorial Award (Best Non-English Paper), International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

2023   Uplifter Award (Outstanding Service to BIPOC Caucus), International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

2022   Walter James Miller Memorial Award for Best Student Paper, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

2020   Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate Division, UC Riverside

2020   International Affairs Recognition Award, International Affairs, UC Riverside

2018   Outstanding International Student Leadership Award, International Affairs, UC Riverside

2011   Chungsan Award for Creative Writing (Fiction), Chungsan

2010   Outstanding Paper Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, Seoul National University

2025   The History of Korean SF Visual Media, 1960–2025: Geopolitical SF, Time Travel, and Gender Experimentation, The Society of Ehwa Korean Language and Literature, Seoul, South Korea, July 8.

2025   Recent Trends in the Field of English Literature in the United States: Focusing on MLA Job Information Listings and Conference Programs, The 30th Anniversary Conference of Scholars for English Studies in Korea (SESK), Seoul, South Korea, May 31.

2025   Elastic futurity in Korean arts and culture: a critical examination, 10th World Summit on Arts and Culture, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, Seoul, South Korea, May 28.

2024   The Wave of Korean Science Fiction, Hongik University, South Korea, Jul 3.

2024   Cyberpunk and Virtual Reality in the History of Anglophone Science Fiction, Hanyang University, South Korea, Jun 1.

2024   New Definition of Science Fiction in the Era of Science Fiction Studies 3.0: Why SF Studies Needs to Think About Asian SF, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California, California, Apr 18.

2023   Mythic Metamorphosis: A Critique of Speculative Orientalism in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, 4th Sungkyun International Forum on Cultural Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Dec 28.

2023   Do South Korean Science Fictions Dream of Decolonized Future?, World Convention of the Korean Language, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Oct 6.

2023   Reimagining Decolonized Futures: The South Korean Mediascape of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Special Roundtable of AAS-in-Asia. Daegu, South Korea. Jul 26.

2023   Ken Liu’s ‘The Paper Menagerie,’ Office of Resources for International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley, Jun 23.

2023   Spatial and Temporal Mobility in Anglophone Science Fiction: Exploring Colonial Journeys, Cyclical Time, and Virtual Movement, Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, May 26.

2022   Korea in Western Science Fiction History, Korean Creators Association, National Assembly of South Korea, Seoul, May 2.

2022   Posthumanism in South Korean Zombie Films and TV Drama, Wonkwang University’s International Conference on Anthropocene Studies, Seoul, South Korea, Apr 23.

2021   The Birth of Speculative Orientalism in American Science Fiction History, Sungkyunkwan University’s International Cultural Studies Forum, Seoul, South Korea, Dec 9.

2021   K-Pop’s Postmodernism and BTS Phenomenon, Good Morning Seoul, Arirang Radio, Seoul, South Korea, global broadcast, May 15.

2018   Nationalism and Imperialism in K-Pop, K-Drama and South Korean Science Fiction, Kritika Kultura, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, August 16.

2025   Negotiating Colonial Dilemma through Science Fiction: Translating Jules Verne in Early 20th- Century Colonial Korea, American Studies Center Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland. May.

2025   Translating Science through the Concepts of Fantasy: The Origins of Science Fiction in Colonial Korea, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March

2025   ‘Wanting to Be Chinese, Not Human’: The Racialization of the Turing Test in Kogonada’s After Yang, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA. January

2025   Mythic Transfuturism: Asian Myth to Imagine Transformed Future Humans in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA. January

2024   Do South Korean SF Dream of a Decolonized Future?: The Post-Political Past and Future in South Korean Science Fiction, Science Fiction Research Association, Tartu, Estonia. May.  

2024   Buddhism and Taoism in North American Science Fiction: Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA. March

2024   Reimagining Asian Religions in North American Science Fiction: Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Beingand Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March.  

2024   Time Travel to the 1990s in South Korean Science Fiction: Reborn Rich as a Reflection of the Postpolitical, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA. January.  

2023   Divinity through Silicon Eyes: Asian Religions, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism in Asian and Asian American Science Fiction, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, November. Online 

2023   Becoming a Ghost: Newtrospective Representation of Historical Violence through Virtual Reality Media in Gina Kim’s Bloodless, Association of Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, California. April.

2023   Ursula K. Le Guin’s Taoism and Taoist Time, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Florida, March. 

2022   The Alien/Asian/Woman Triad in Philip K. Dick’s Short Stories (1950s–1960s), English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Seoul. December. 

2022   Asians as Speculative Instruments in Contemporary American Science Fiction Media, American Comparative Literature Association, June. Online.

2022   The Birth of Speculative Orientalism as a Reforming Engine of Science Fiction, Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. March. 

2022   From Patriarchal History to Korean Ethnoformalist Speculative Empathy in South Korean Science Fiction Squid Game and The School Nurse Files, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Florida. March.  

2022   New Visibility of Transgenders and Refugees in Korean New Media, Modern Language Association, January. Washington DC. Online.

2021   Speculative Orientalism in Ursula Le Guin’s Tao Te Ching and The Word for World Is Forest, American Comparative Literature Association, April. Online.

2021   Philip K. Dick’s Short Stories and Speculative Orientalism, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, March. Online. 

2021   South Korean Zombie Films and TV Drama and its posthumanism, Science Fiction Research Association, June. Online.

2020   Necropolitical Metamorphoses into Parasites: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host and Parasite, Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington. January. 

2019   The Orient at the Gate of Sf Disorientation: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren, Science Fiction Research Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. June. 

2018   Recolonization of America and Indian Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association, Bellingham, Washington. November. 

2018   Nationalism and Escapism in PSY’s Music Videos, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Irvine, California. October. 

2018   Professional Military Esports Players in S. Korea as Economic Warriors: The Sociotechnical Imaginary of Korea on Esports Industry, UC Irvine, Esports Conference, October.

2018   The Inequality of Shared Vulnerability in Biochemical Politics: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host, Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia, New Delhi, India. July. 

2018   Epistemology of Transnational Closet: Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts, Association for Asian American Studies, March. San Francisco, California.

2017   The Ethics of Remembering Japan through a Camera and a Game: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil and Level 5, (Dis)junctions, UC Riverside. October. 

2017   Time Travel and Justice of the Past within South Korean Science-Fiction Film and Drama, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Seoul, South Korea. July. 
 

2025   The Origins of Science Fiction in Colonial Korea, Marist Asian Studies Conference, NY. April.

2025   Teaching in Honors, Marist University. February.

2024   The Asian Experiences in America: Religion, Culture, and Entrepreneurship, Marist University. April.

2024   Transpacific Environmental Narratives in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite: An Examination of Cross-Cultural Eco-Critical Discourse, Marist University. April.

2023   Navigating the Landscape of South Korean Mass Media, Marist University. October.

2023   From Techno-Orientalism to Asian Futurism, The Humanities Center at the University of San Diego. March.
 

2025   The Impact of Korean Culture in the U.S. and Its Future, Marist Asian Studies Conference, NY. March.

2025   After The Three-Body Problem: What’s Next for Chinese SF?, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March.

2025   ChatGPT, Deep Seek, and Art: Where AI and LLMs Are Moving in 2025?, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March.

2025   Three Key Issues in Korean Science Fiction and Fantasy, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March.

2023   Technofuturism, AI, and Feminist Narratives in South Korean Science Fiction, Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, November. Online. 

2023   From BTS to Squid Game: Hallyu 3.0, Special Roundtable of AAS-in-Asia. Daegu, South Korea. July.

2022   Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction–JFA Focused Edition Discussion, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, October. Online.

2022   Meeting with Rising South Korean Writers, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, October. Online.

2022   Korean Science Fiction and Decolonizing Posthumanism, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, October. Online.

2021   Overview of South Korean Science Fiction and Posthumanism, Science Fiction Research Association Conference, June. Online.

2019   Another Future: Speculative Fiction and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea, UC Riverside, February.

2018   Postcolonialism and Posthumanism in Korea, Japanese, and Pakistani Science Fiction, Association for Asian American Studies-in-Asia, New Delhi, India. June. 

2017   Transformations of Mourning and Trauma in Language, Film and Performance, (Dis)Junctions, UC Riverside. October. 

2017   Cognitively Estranged Literature; Bridges of Narrative, Form, and Expression between Korea and the United States, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Seoul, South Korea. July. 

Advising mentor for European Research Council research project proposal of Dr. Arnavas, 2024–present

Member of International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts’ Policies and Procedures Council, 2025–present

Counter Space Division Head, International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2023–present

Submission and Review Editor for Asia and its Diaspora, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2022–present

Director of International Relations, Korean Association of Popular Narratives, 2022–present

Country Representative (Korea), Science Fiction Research Association, 2021–present       

Guest Editor, The Journal of English Language & Literature 70/3, 2024 

Faculty Mentor, “Application Anecdotes and Alternative Career Paths in SF/F,” Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association, University of Tartu, Estonia

Member of Editorial Board, The Journal of English Language & Literature, 2023–present

Faculty Mentor for Graduate Students, Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts Mentorship Program, 2022            

External Consultant for Science Fiction Publications, Book 21 Publishing Company, Seoul, South Korea, 2020

Faculty Mentor, Marist Asian Alliance, Marist University, Feb. 2025–present.

Member of Faculty Evaluations Committee, Marist University, May. 2025–present

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, School of Liberal Arts, Marist University, Sep. 2024–present

Main Conference Organizer, 2025 Marist Asian Studies Conference, Marist University, April. 2025

English Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Search Committee, School of Liberal Arts, Marist University, Oct. 2024

Interfaith Faculty Fellows Program Committee, Marist University, 2024–2025

English Full-time Lecturer Search Committee, School of Liberal Arts, Marist University, Feb. 2024

Faculty Organizer, School of Liberal Arts special guest lecture event, Marist University, Jan. 2024

Faculty Organizer, Ethnic Studies Department Lecture Series, University of San Diego, 2022–2023

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Committee, University Writing Program at UC Riverside, 2021  

President of Korean Graduate Students and Faculty Association, UC Riverside, 2018–2019          

Vice-President of Graduate Students of English Association, UC Riverside, 2017–2018