Korean Foundation Assistant Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
Michelle Cho is a Korea Foundation Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at University of Toronto. She is completing a book entitled The Disenchantment of the Global: Post-millennial South Korean Cinema, which analyzes the form and function of South Korean genre cinemas in the "Sunshine Policy" decade to ask what the anachronism of cold war signifiers amidst post-cold war migrant flows and political realignments can tell us about media, history and geopolitics. Her current research pursues the relationship between popular culture and populism in South Korea as well as the construction of identity in South Korean media’s popular representation of diasporic subject.
Research Keywords:
East Asian Media; South Korean Film Industry; Korean Pop Culture