Suk-Young Kim

Suk-Young Kim is a professor of theater and performance studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in Korean theater and visual culture, and in Cold War and postwar regimes. Her work investigates how performing arts in authoritarian and militarized contexts can serve as spaces for political expression and cultural resistance. She has published several books, including "DMZ Colony: A Performance Memorial to the Korean War" (2020), "Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea" (2010), and "Performance, Politics, and the Postcolonial in South Korea" (2015). She is also co-editor of "The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop" (2023) and "The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Performance" (2021). Her articles have appeared in prestigious academic journals. Kim was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2021-2022 and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Senior Research Program, among others.

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