Select Academic Publications

Journal Publications

“Made with Korea: Defining ‘Korean’ Animation from Cel to AI through K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025),” VERGE: Studies in Global Asias, for co-edited special issue: “Bad Animation” (under peer-review)

“What Makes This Slop?: Diffusion Models and Their Noisy Images,” animation: an interdisciplinary journal, for co-edited special issue: “Bad Animation” (in preparation)

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)

Edited Book Chapters

“The Countercultural Animated Body,” Encyclopedia for Animation Studies vol. 4, edited by Christopher Holliday and David McGowan (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026)

“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 **

Other Scholarly Writing

“The Personal Is Political: Korean Queer Animation Online, From Flash To Youtube“, In Media Res (Fall 2025)

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

“Introducing the Generative Archive,” Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, & X: School of X Fellows (2024)

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Select Film Journalism

Select Features

“Going Off-Script in Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993),” Imprint Asia, Special Edition 4K/Blu-Ray DVD Collection

“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 Interviews (Print + Video)

Stephanie Ahn, interview from Sundance, KO-Pick News (February 2026)

HIKARI, video interview from Mill Valley Film Festival, Asian Movie Pulse Video Interviews (October 2025)

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

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