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Suk-Young Kim (Director of Graduate Admissions)

Associate Professor

Teaching Schedule, Office Hours & Location

T 11-12 (F09)
TD West, Room 2512

Research

Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama. Northwestern University
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literature. University of Illinois at Chicago

Suk-Young Kim's research interests expand over a wide range of academic disciplines, such as East Asian Performance, Gender and Nationalism, Korean Cultural Studies, Russian Literature, and Slavic Folklore. Her research has been acknowledged by the International Federation for Theatre Research New Scholar's Prize (2004), the American Society for Theater Research Fellowship (2006), the Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship (2006-7), and the Academy of Korean Studies Research Grant (2008) among others. She is the author of two books: Illusive Utopia (University of Michigan Press, 2010) explores how the state produced propaganda performances intersect with everyday life practice in North Korea whereas Long Road Home (Columbia University Press, 2009) documents the testimony of a North Korean labor camp survivor.

Selected Publication

Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Univ. of Michigan Press, forthcoming)

Coauthored with Kim Yong, Long Road Home: A Testimony of a North Korean
Camp Survivor (Columbia UP, 2009)

"Musical from the Gulags of North Korea: Performing Trauma in Yoduk Story." TDR: The Drama Review 52:1 (2008)

"Springtime for Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang: City as Stage, City on Stage."
TDR: The Drama Review 51:2 (2007).

"Russian Symbolist Drama as Rituals: G. Gippius' Sacred Blood and A.
Blok's Puppet Show, Festschrift in Honor of Professor Anna Lisa Crone
(Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2007).

"From Imperial Concubine to Model Maoist: Photographic Metamorphosis of Mei
Lanfang," Theatre Research International 31:1 (2006).


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Contact

TD West, Room 2512
UC Santa Barbara-Department of Theater and Dance
Santa Barbara, Ca 93106-7060
Fax: 805-893-7029
Email: skim@theaterdance.ucsb.edu

 

 

 

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