Associate Professor
Department of Visual Art & Art History, York University
hongkal[at]yorku.ca
Hong Kal teaches visual art and culture of East Asia. She has written about expositions and museums in relation to the formation of national identity. Her current research focuses on trauma art, socially engaged art, and artistic intervention in urban development in Korea. Her research was supported by Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Stanford University (2003–2005), Advanced Research Grant from Korea Foundation (2007–2008) and SSHRC Standard Grant (2010–2013). She was a core member of Korea in the World, the World in the Korean Studies, the project at York that received the grant ($1 million over five years, 2018–2022). She is the author of Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History (Routledge 2011) and published articles in journals, including: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Inter Asia Cultural Studies, Korean Studies, and The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
Research Keywords:
Asian art history