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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Taiwan Literary and Cultural Studies. Please feel free to share this job posting with anyone who may be interested. I am also happy to answer any questions about living and working here. Come work with me! apply.interfolio.com/194875

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/10/2026

Yay I won a prize but THIS is the REAL news: "The Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a culture and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of Land" ... and I am translating Toji (all twenty volumes) into English!

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Translator Anton Hur Wins New Park Kyung-ni Prize Special Award

Translator Anton Hur is the first winner of the Woori Eum Award, a one-time Park Kyung-ni Prize special award with 10 million won.

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Many thanks to the editors, Joseph Hancock and Frank New, and my fellow NCTzens, Jenna Gibson and Sam James, or rather their dolls, for the guest appearance! 💚 "Fashioning fan culture and identity with K-pop dolls through affective labour" doi.org/10.1386/fspc...

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This article examines how K-pop dolls materialize what might otherwise be ephemeral experiences into objects that can be possessed and shared among fans, thereby expanding possibilities for community ...

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My research on K-pop dolls, which did not make it in my K-Pop Fandom book, has been published in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture's special issue "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls." "Fashioning fan culture and identity with K-pop dolls through affective labour" doi.org/10.1386/fspc...

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As the first anniversary of my Sewol book approaches, I was delighted and grateful to see such a generous and kind review published in Theatre Research International(doi.org/10.1080/0307...). Many thanks to Dr. Hayana Kim for taking the time to read and engage with my work!🎗️

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

앞으로 수많은 수정을 거쳐야 하겠지만, 다음 책 초고 완성 🫠 이제 한숨 푹 자고 콘서트 가서 신나게 놀아야지 ✈️💚

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're hiring faculty at Meadows! First up is this tenure-track position (Assistant or Associate rank) in Theatre Studies in our fantastic and eclectic Theatre division. apply.interfolio.com/191543

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Still quite some time left, but hope to see you at Harvard in February! 🙌🏻 korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/areum-...

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So apparently the Library of Congress had a K-pop event yesterday and exhibited a collection of academic scholarship on K-pop! Many thanks to oomfs and readers who sent photos! 📚💚 몰랐는데 어제 미국 국회도서관에서 케이팝 행사를 했나보다. 행사에 다녀온 몇몇 독자와 툥프들로부터 메세지와 인증샷이 왔는데, 꿋꿋하게 자기 주장하는 네오 그린 표지가 사랑스럽다💚

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Trying to organize my conference and talk dates as the new academic year looms ahead: Late Oct: CU Boulder Mid-Nov: ASTR (Minneapolis) Early Dec: UT Austin Late Feb: Harvard Mid-Mar: AAS (Boston) & more in discussion! If you would like to collab or invite me for a talk, please get in touch! 👩🏻‍💻

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Many thanks to Dr. Ethan Segal and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) for inviting me to talk about K-pop to K-12 educators at the 2026 Summer Teaching about East Asia Seminar! 👩🏻‍💻🙏🏻 줌 특강 두 탕 뛴 하루.. 오늘도 밥값했다.. 🫠

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

초대해주신 김지훈 센터장님과 여름학교를 위해 애써주신 조교 선생님들께 다시 한 번 감사드리고, 특강 와주신 모든 분들께 진심으로 감사드립니다! 👩🏻‍💻🙏🏻

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oof I am so sorry to hear that and I feel your pain. Sending you energy to push through and hope everything works out in the end!

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I had a very similar experience with an indexer (came highly recommended, kept pushing back deadlines, ghosted me and even turned off their emails) and I roll my eyes whenever I see them promoting their services here. (In the end, I did the indexing myself without sleeping for 72 hours.)

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Submitted the last document for my tenure & promotion review... now I just have to wait till next May... 🫠

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Eunkyo Kang @ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

More broadly, I’m frustrated by how almost every discussion surrounding BTS is framed through an overwhelmingly American-centric lens. Ironically, even the discourse of decentering America remains profoundly American-centric. I don’t think that’s ultimately good for BTS, either.

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Eunkyo Kang @ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Which is why, contrary to what many people are suggesting, BTS’s Grammy boycott is nothing like Bong Joon-ho saying, “The Oscars are very local.” Bong relativized the Oscars. BTS spent years universalizing and absolutizing the Grammys—and, in many ways, they still do.

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Eunkyo Kang @ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Its alignment with American liberal multiculturalism emerged as a byproduct of climbing to the top of that competitive hierarchy, not as an ideological commitment. Whatever cultural impact this boycott may ultimately have, I think this one is, in essence, closer to sour grapes.

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Eunkyo Kang @ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In that sense, interpreting BTS/HYBE’s boycott through the same liberal cultural framework as other Grammy boycott cases is a mistake. K-pop has always operated according to the logic of neoliberal competition: winning is always the point.

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Eunkyo Kang @ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

when you consider how desperately they’ve pursued the Grammys for years especially in their attempt to exempt the military services. They’ve been strategically emphasized or downplayed the “K” in K-pop whenever it suited the goal of becoming Grammy-worthy for all these years.

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Eunkyo Kang @ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BTS’s Grammy boycott is now being celebrated as a stand against the Grammys’ white-centric bias. And yes, creating an “Asian Pop” category is obviously a racializing move. But it’s difficult to read HYBE and BTS’s boycott simply as a decision made for the good of the industry or the scene

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I finally have a very, very rough draft (so lots more writing ahead) of Chapters 1-4 of my next book manuscript, but I will put it away for a week so, then return to it with fresh eyes. Although it feels very skeletal now, I am very excited to develop it further. 👩🏻‍💻

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

10년 전에 가서 지금은 어떨지 모르겠지만 Coava Coffee Roasters 와 Lardo 맛있었던 기억이 나요 😂

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kpop moments that could kill achilleans @kpopachillean.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

NCT Taeyong #태용 📷 x/patronus0701

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was in a working group this summer on AI resistant assignments. I focused on low stakes course work that could then be scaffolded into my formal assignments. I teach literature, so things like social annotations, concept mapping, and commonplacing academictech.uchicago.edu/2024/06/24/u...

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Use Commonplacing to Help Students Better Understand Difficult Texts: Habits of Mind Series, Part One | Academic Technology Solutions

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm a dancing cactus yeah 🌵🎶

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/07/2026

For the @nytimes.com, the biggest crises in higher ed are grade inflation at Ivy/Ivy-adjacent institutions & 'wokeness,' not the defunding of public higher ed, attacks on academic freedom which disproportionately impact public institutions, crumbling campus infrastructure, exploding student debt

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

이번 주 할 일 👩🏻‍💻 - (매해 하는) 정보 보완 및 학생 지도 관련 온라인 교육 이수하기 - 학교 시스템에 상반기 실적 정리해서 올리기 - 책 원고와 학술지 논문 둘 심사하기 - 가을 학기 수업 자료 스캔하기 - 내 글 쓰기 + 시간 남으면 새 굿즈 가져가서 연구실 꾸미기

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

해 뜰 때가 제일 좋아 🌵🌴

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

몇 달 치 짐 다 정리하고 구석구석 청소하고 장 보고 나니 넘나 피곤하지만 집에 돌아온 거 실감남🌵 달력 보니 정확히 한 달 후에 엘에이 간다 남은 주말만 누워서 쉬고 내일부터 일 열시미 하기 🙌🏻

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Excited that there are 4 performances on Jeju at Festival d'Avignon this year. Arthur Laffargue of Liberation, who read my Theatre Research International article, invited me to share my thoughts on Creative VaQi's Story of Island and the Jeju 4.3 Massacre. www.liberation.fr/culture/scen...

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Festival d’Avignon 2026 : la mémoire du massacre de Jeju en Corée reconstruite pièce par pièce

Longtemps taboue et occultée par la dictature, l’histoire des tueries de 1947-1954 sur l’île sud-coréenne réémerge par la création. Trois pièces y sont consacrées au Festival, dont le coréen est la l...

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

아 킹받게 공항에 뭐 저런 걸 만들어놨어 😂🤣 근데 굿즈와 책이 깔끔하게 정리된 내 집으로 돌아갈 생각을 하니 좋음 🌵🌴

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨 Cool CPF alert! 🚨 MAKING AND ARCHIVING FEMINIST ZINES OTHERWISE A Symposium on Global Feminist Methods & Pedagogies Virtual event on 22-23 October 2026 knowledgesteez.com/call-for-pap...

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 06/07/2026

Today is National Fried Chicken Day.

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

New book review in The Journal of Popular Culture ⬇️⬇️⬇️ K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu From the 1990s to Today. By Areum Jeong, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2026. 176 pp. $24.95 (paperback). Li Wei #FanStudies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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K‐Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu From the 1990s to Today. By Areum Jeong, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2026. 176 pp. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐47‐205789‐4

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

어제 부천에서 보고 왔는데, 장면 장면 계속 떠오르고 곱씹는 중 🥹 간만에 봤는데 또 보고 싶은 영화가 생김 🎬 나중에 개봉하면 꼭 보러가세요!🎖️

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kpop moments that could kill achilleans @kpopachillean.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

NCT Taeyong #태용 📷¹ x/ffloweroad 📷² x/m4rklvsc

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In the first half of 2026, I reviewed three book manuscripts, two grant proposals, and two journal articles. I was asked to review more but had to decline to protect my health and time. I wonder, am I doing enough to serve our community? And are other folks pulling their weight as well?

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I can donate some pcs to help Notes on K-pop!

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