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Academic Publications

Edited Book Chapters

“The Countercultural Animated Body,” Encyclopedia for Animation Studies vol. 4, edited by Christopher Holliday and David McGowan (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026; undergraduate reader on the transition from TV to Internet animation featuring Adult Swim’s Xavier: Renegade Angel)

“Towards a Ciné-Paleontology: Theories of Digital Cinematography,” in Handbuch Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert (Springer Nature), 2024 (undergraduate reader for theories for digital cinematography in the 20th-21st century through the Jurassic Park franchise) ** full article available upon request **

Journal Publications

A+Q: Animating Asia as Method, VERGE: Studies in Global Asias (forthcoming Fall 2025)

Book Review: Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies by Dal Yong Jin, Transnational Screens 16.1 (2025)
** full article available upon request **

Back to Front: Animating Melodrama in Makoto Shinkai’s Garden of Words, Animation Studies (Society for Animation Studies — Maureen Furniss Best Student Essay on Animated Media Award winner)

Academic Blogs

“The Personal is Political: Hyper(in)visibility in Queer Korean Web Animation, from Alien Stage to There She Is!!“, In Media Res (forthcoming, Fall 2025)

Fantasy/Animation (Film and TV Reviews Editor from 2022-2024)

“Musings on Mir: Finding a name in American animation,” Fantasy/Animation (August 2021, on Korean animation studio Studio Mir)

The Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Forum (2024)

xCoAx: Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X (2024)

Association for Chinese Animation Studies (2023)

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Film Journalism

Select Press Features (Various sources)

Roundtable with The Wedding Banquet (group interview with Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, and Han Gi-chan), Asian Movie Pulse (April 2025)

“Are Hybrid Film Festivals Actually Accessible?” Hyperallergic (July 2021)

“2020: The Year of Asian Cinema,” Asian Movie Pulse (December 2020)

“The Tyranny of the Image: Or alternatively, a response to defacing statues,” The Courtauldian (June 2020)

“GoCritic! Feature: Animation Filmmakers to Watch,” Cineuropa (July 2019)

Select Film Press Interviews (Print + Video for Asian Movie Pulse)

Bae Doona, interview conducted in Korean + translated (June 2025)

Razan AlSalah, AMP Interviews, video interview conducted for “A Stone’s Throw” (May 2025)

Malala Yousafzai and Sue Kim, print interview for “The Last of the Sea Women” at TIFF 2024 (September 2024)

“A Roundtable with Singapore’s Emerging Animators,” group interview of student animators at Cartoons Underground (December 2020)

Select Film Reviews (Various Sources)

“The Report (1977) by Abbas Kiarostami,” Asian Movie Pulse (March 2025)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) by Dean Fleischer-Camp, Fantasy/Animation (July 2022)

“Chilsu and Mansu” (1988) by Park Kwang-su, for 100+1 Essential Korean Movies Retrospective, Asian Movie Pulse (April 2021)

“Attente” (2005) by Rashid Masharawi, Asian Movie Pulse (August 2019)

Other Bylines: Koreanscreen.com (2021), TAKE ONE Cinema (2019)