Han Sang Kim 6100 Main St., MS-475, Houston, TX 77251-1892 hansangkim@rice.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Rice University Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies, The Chao Center for Asian Studies (CCAS) Boston University Lecturer, Department of World Languages & Literatures Visiting Researcher, Center for the Study of Asia University of California, San Diego Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow / Lecturer in Transnational Korean Studies, Department of History Harvard University Fellow, Korea Institute Seoul National University Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of International Studies Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 2016-2018 2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 2011-2012 2009-2011 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Historical Sociology, 2013. Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Dissertation Title: Uneven Screens, Contested Identities: USIS, Cultural Films, and the National Imaginary in South Korea, 1945-1972 Primary Advisor: Keunsik Jung Committee: Carter J. Eckert, Steven Chung, Kyung-sup Chang, Hong-jung Kim, Keunsik Jung M.A. in Historical Sociology, 2007. Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Primary Advisor: Keunsik Jung B.A. in German Language and Literature, 2003. Department of German Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea -1-
COURSES OFFERED RICE UNIVERSITY / Instructor (Postdoctoral Fellow) ASIA 227: Modern Korea History, Culture, & Society (Approved for credit by the Department of History) ASIA 327: Cinema and Mobility in 20th Century East Asia BOSTON UNIVERSITY / Instructor (Lecturer) CAS LK 383: Modern Korean Culture through Cinema UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO / Instructor (Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer) HIEA 151: The Two Koreas, 1945-Present Topics in Popular Culture HIEA 180: Topics in Modern Korean History Film, Popular Culture, and Mobility SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY/ Co-Instructor (Adjunct Lecturer) 8754.722: Modernization and the Transformation of Korean Society (in English) HARVARD UNIVERSITY / Co-Instructor (Visiting Fellow) Korean History 255r: Seminar (Co-teaching with Professor Carter J. Eckert) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Korean Film Archive Senior Researcher February September 2011 Programmer & Curator May 2005 July 2009 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2016 Fall Grant for Research Travel Within North America by the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC), Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2016 OKSHF Research Grant at USC Korean Heritage Library 2015 Spring Grant for Short-Term Research Travel Outside North America by the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC), Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2013 Harvard-Yenching Institute Publication Grant 2013 Support Program for Cataloging Korean Historical Materials Found Overseas by the National Institute of Korean History 2012 Excellent Articles Award by the National Research Foundation of Korea: Title: Cold War and the Hybrid Ursprung of South Korean National Cinema: On Boxes of Death and Kim Ki-Young's USIS Public Information Films 2012 Support Program for Cataloging Korean Historical Materials Found Overseas by the National Institute of Korean History 2008 Support Program for New Researchers by the Korean Film Council 2007 Excellent Theses Award by the Korean Film Council: Title: The Art Cinema Discourse in Korea and the Formation of the Market and Spectators RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Core Areas of Research: Cold War Governmentality, Americanization in Korea and East Asia -2-
Division of Korea, Postwar Division of East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, and Okinawa) Cultural History of Transportation Mobility in Korea and East Asia Korean Film History History of Film Propaganda in East and Southeast Asia (WWII, Cold War) Additional Teaching and Research Areas: Contemporary East Asian Cinema and Popular Culture Film Archiving and Sociology of Memory Visual Sociology: Theory and Methods PUBLICATIONS Article: Film Auteurism as a Cold War Governmentality: Alternative Knowledge and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity. In The Journal of Korean Studies 22:2 (Fall 2017):317-42. My Car Modernity: What the U.S. Army Brought to South Korean Cinematic Imagination about Modern Mobility. In The Journal of Asian Studies 75:1 (February 2016):63-85. Cold War and the Contested Identity Formation of Korean Filmmakers: On Boxes of Death and Kim Ki-yŏng s USIS Films. In Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements 14:4 (December 2013):551-63. Co-Authored Book: Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema. Seoul: Pusan International Film Festival & Korean Film Archive. 2007. Book Chapter: My Sweet Home in the Next Decade: The Popular Imagination of Private Home Ownership During the Yusin Period. In Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s. Edited by Youngju Ryu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2017, to appear. Banality in Vision: Cinema and Mass Dictatorship. In Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship. Edited by Paul Corner & Jie-Hyun Lim. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016:271-84. Book Review: Joon Yang Kim: Imiji ŭi cheguk: Ilbon yŏlto wi ŭi aenimeisyŏn (Empire of Images: Animation on the Japanese Islands). In Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8:2 (July 2013): 203-5. Other Publication: Culture Film Screening in Chosŏn, from the 1930s to 1940s. In The Past Unearthed, the Fourth Encounter Moving Images From Gosfilmofond [DVD Box Set Booklet]. Seoul: Korean Film Archive. 2009:16-9, 36-9. -3-
SELECT PUBLICATIONS in KOREAN and JAPANESE: Authored Book: 조국근대화를유람하기 : 박정희정권홍보드라이브 < 팔도강산 > 10 년 [Sightseeing Modernization of the Fatherland: P aldogangsan, 10 Years of a Propaganda Series for the Park Chung-Hee Regime]. Seoul: Korean Film Archive. 2008. Book Chapter: 駐韓米国公報院 (USIS) 映画宣伝の表象と言説 [(Re)Presentations and Discourses in the USIS-Korea s Film Propaganda]. In 記憶と表象から読む東アジアの 20 世紀 [20th Century East Asia through Memory and Representation]. Fukuoka: Hana Shoin. 2015:195-215. 조선 - 만주관광문화영화와극장이벤트로서의 동아신질서 [Chosŏn-Manchurian Tourist Cultural Films and the New Order in East Asia as a Cinematic Event]. In 아시아이벤트 : ( 서로다른 ) 아시아들의경합 [Asia Event: Competition Among Different Asias]. Seoul: Kŭrinbi. 2013:199-234. 담론의승리 : 박정희정권기 고속도로 의문화적건설 [Triumph of the Discourse: Cultural Construction of Expressway under the Park Chung-Hee Regime]. In 고속도로의인문학 [Humanities on the Expressway]. Seoul: Korea Expressway Corporation. 2010:185-206. Articles: 해방 70 년의변곡점 2 : 테크노피아 1980 년대자동화담론과새로운이동체계 [Technopia Discourses on Automation and the New Mobility System in the 1980s]. In 역사비평 [Critical Review of History] 113 (Winter 2015):234-59. 탈식민국가형성기재외조선인들의종족상상 : < 해연 ( 일명갈매기 )> 과서울영화주식회사의영화를중심으로 [Self-Imagined Ethnicity of the Korean Diaspora during the Postcolonial State Formation: Sea Gull (1948) and the films of Seoul Motion Picture Company]. In 아세아연구 [The Journal of Asiatic Studies] 161 (September 2015):206-39. 주한미국공보원 (USIS) 영화의응시메커니즘 - 비가시적인것의가시화와가시화하는힘의과시 [The Mechanism of the Gaze in the USIS Film Propaganda in South Korea]. In 역사문제연구 [Critical Studies on Modern Korean History] 30 (October 2013):167-201. 주한미국공보원 (USIS) 영화선전의표상과담론 - 1950 년대, 국가재건과자립한국인의주체성 [(Re)Presentations and Discourses in the USIS-Korea s Film Propaganda - The Rehabilitated Self in Rebuilding the Nation in the 1950s]. In 사회와역사 [Society and History] 95 (September 2012):243-79. 1945-48 년주한미군정및주한미군사령부의영화선전 [The U.S. Film Propaganda In South Korea, 1945-48: The Study on Film Materials Discovered in the U.S. National Archives]. In 미국사연구 [American History] 34 (November 2011):177-212. 박정희정권기가족서사의균열과저항 : 김수현의멜로영화를중심으로 [Cracks and -4-
Resistance in the Family Narrative of the Park Chung-Hee Regime: On Kim Su-Hyun s Melodramatic Films]. In 대중서사연구 [Journal of Popular Narrative] 22 (December 2009):283-313. 영화의국적관념과국가영화사의제도화연구 : ' 한국영화사 ' 주요연구문헌을중심으로 [Research on the Idea of Film s Nationality and the Institutionalization of the History of a Korean National Cinema: Focusing on Research Documents and Classification Systems]. In 사회와역사 [Society and History] 80 (December 2008):257-86. WORK IN PROGRESS Cinema and Mobility: A New Look at Korea s Modernity in the 20th Century (working title). Received a receptive response to the book proposal from a renowned academic publisher. Self-Gazing under the Big Other s Gaze: Postwar Division System and Its Spectatorship in East Asia (working title). In preparation for a book proposal. The March of Fools (1975): The Resistant Spirit and Its Limits. In Rediscovering Korean Cinema. Edited by Sangjoon Lee. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Under peer review. INVITED TALKS / SPECIAL LECTURES Film Auteurism as Cold War Governmentality: A Korean Case. Special Talk at the TARI Seminar of the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. March 24, 2017. Cinema and Mobility: A New Look at Korea s Modernity in the 20th Century. Special Talk at the Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University. October 20, 2015. Special Lecture for AMES 11/HIST 5.4 Introduction to Korean Culture at Dartmouth University. February 4, 2015. My Car Modernity: What the U.S. Army brought to South Korean cinematic imagination about modernization. Speaker s Series: Modern (Sub-) Empires and Transnational Korea at University of California, San Diego. October 16, 2014. My Car Modernity: What the U.S. Army brought to South Korean cinematic imagination about modernization. Workshop: Political and Historical Traversals in Modern Korea at Princeton University. May 3, 2014. The Mechanism of the Gaze in the USIS Film Propaganda during and after the Korean War. Special Talk at the Institute for Korean Historical Studies, Seoul, South Korea. July 13, 2013. The Cold War System and the Hybrid Origins of Korean National Cinema: On Kim Ki- -5-
yong s Boxes of Death and Other USIS Culture Films. Workshop: Cultures of Militarism in Korea at Princeton University. December 28, 2010. Cold War and the Hybrid Origin of South Korean National Cinema: From the Re-Discovery of Kim Ki-Young s Debut Film. Special Talk at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. November 15, 2010. Special Lecture for EAS 219 Modern Korean History at Smith College. March 31, 2010. CONFERENCES Organizer Memories and Film. Organized panel at the 2017 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference in Seoul, South Korea, July 2017. Socio-Spatial Patterns and Systems of Mobilities in and around Korea. Organized panel at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago, IL, March 2015. Repatriation or Share of Film Heritage: Lost Film Collection and Description of the History in East Asia. Organized the 2008 International Film Archive Symposium of the Korean Film Archive in Seoul, South Korea, May 2008. Presenter (select) Emperor on the Track: He never visits the colony, but his cinematic double does. Will be presented at the Porting Media II conference, at Concordia University and McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada. October 2017. Problematizing Cultural Cold War. Will be presented at the 2017 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference in Seoul, South Korea. July 2017. Miles and Miles of Track: The Railroad Mobility in North Korean Cinema. Presented at the KOVIC Workshop, Korea, Media, Archive: Rethinking Optics, at Columbia University, New York, NY. May 2017. Colony on Track: Colonial Identities in the Cinematic Represenation of Trains. Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting for the Association for Asian Studies in Toronto, Canada. March 2017. President Park Rode in a Jeep : The National Imaginary of Automobility in South Korea, 1961-79. Presented at the American Historical Association s 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. January 2017. AlphaGo s Predecessors in South Korea: The Discourse on Automation Since the Late 1940s. Presented at the 8th World Congress of Korean Studies at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October 2016. -6-
March of Fools and the Limits of Resistant Spirit. Presented at the 9th Kyujanggak Symposium for Korean Studies, Power and Dissent: Understanding Korea s Past and Present Challenges through Korean Studies, at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. August 2016. Film, the Art Form of the Individual : Auteurism As Cold War Governmentality. Presented at The Cold War in Korean Cinemas Workshop at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. May 2016. Mobile Bodies on an Automated Flow: Neoliberal Subjects in Pre-IMF South Korean Films. Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association s 2016 Annual Meeting in Cambridge, MA. March 2016. Mobility on Track: Locomotive Modernity in Colonial Korean Cinema. Presented at the Korean Literature Association Conference hosted by Duke University in Durham, NC. November 2015. The Neoliberal Utopia of Automated Mobility in South Korea in the 1980s. Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago, IL. March 2015. My Sweet Utopia in the Next Decade: The Popular Imagination of Private Ownership During the Yushin Period. Presented at the conference, Cultures of Yushin, hosted by University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. November 2014. Imagined Geographies of the USIS Television Shows in the 1960s South Korea. Presented at the conference, The Cold War and Entertainment Television, hosted by University of Paris 8 in Paris, France. June 2014. Reintroducing Colonial Expertise to Build Free Nations on Screen. Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Philadelphia, PA. March 2014. Projecting the Free World on the Colonial Screen: Mobile Screening as a Resurged Propaganda Practice. Presented at the 2014 Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Seattle, WA. March 2014. Maneuvering Film Units and the Creation of Divided Spectatorship in East Asia. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, CA. March 2013. Spectatorship of Division: Early Cold War Film Propaganda in South Korea and South Vietnam. Presented at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Chicago, IL. March 2013. Whose Authenticity? Exhibiting Local Cultural Heritages through Films of the USIA. Presented at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Boston, MA. March 2012. -7-
State/Nation Building in South Korea and the US s Film Propaganda, 1945-48 - In terms of the formation of the Cold War Governmentality. Presented at the SNU Sociology Kyushu-U Comparative Social-Cultural Institute Joint Forum 2011 in Kyushu, Japan. July 2011. Making Modern Korean Bodies: Repetitive Self-Gazing in Japanese and USIS Propaganda Films. Presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in New Orleans, LA. March 2011. Discursive Construction of Kosok Toro [Expressways] in 1960s' South Korea. Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta, GA. Aug. 2010. World-Picture Visualized: What did America try to show Korean people through the films of the USIS? Presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association in Berkeley, CA. March 2010. Cinematic Experience of Modern World: The Case of Cultural Films Made in Colonized Joseon and Manchuria. Presented at the Kyujanggak Institute For Korean Studies 2009 Spring International Workshop in Seoul, South Korea. May 2009. Research on the idea of film's nationality and the institutionalization of the history of Korean national cinema: Focusing on research documents and classification systems. Presented at the UT-SNU Sociology Joint Forum 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. November 2008. Paldogangsan, A Propaganda Series of South Korea in the 1960s-70s: A Politics of Space. Presented at the Cultural Typhoon 2008 in Sendai, Japan. June 2008. Film Archive and National Cinema: An Imposed Dilemma. Presented at the 2008 International Film Archive Symposium in Seoul, South Korea. May 2008. ARCHIVAL RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT: Locating several pieces of archival footage containing images of wartime sex slavery of the Japanese Imperial Army in China at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, June 2017. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/07/07/2017070701341.html Locating and Cataloging 182 U.S. Information Service films related to South Korea at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2010-2013. http://db.history.go.kr/item/bookviewer.do?levelid=fs_027 Locating Korean master director Kim Ki-yŏng s long-lost debut film Boxes of Death (1955) at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, July 2010. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2011/05/141_87784.html -8-
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION: Faculty Host Transnational Asia Speaker Series in the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University Speaker: Todd A. Henry, April 13, 2017. Film Series Coordinator Spring 2017 Korean Film Series: New Women on the Move at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. February April 2017. Fall 2016 Korean Film Series: Politics of Memory in Contemporary Korean Cinema at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. September November 2016. Spring 2014 Korean Cinémathèque: Media, Erotics, and Transnational Korea at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. February May 2014. Fall 2010 Korean Cinémathèque: Cinema of In/Corporeal Transformations at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. September November 2010. Spring 2010 Korean Cinémathèque: Peninsular Genderscapes On Films at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. February April 2010. Film Festival Programmer / Coordinator (select) Screening of Sabangji(1988) at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. November 14, 2014. http://festival.sdaff.org/2014/films/sabangji/ Okinawa Film Special at the Korean Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea. June 2009. Kim Ki-Young Retrospective at the Korean Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea. June 2008. Korean Film Archive Film Festival (including retrospective screenings of Japanese early films) at the Korean Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea. May 2008. Lee Man-Hee Retrospective at the Korean Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea. May 2006. First Releases of Unearthed Korean Films from the 1930s and 40s at the Korean Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea. March 2006. Academic Societies and Journals Editorial Board Member, the International Association of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies, August 2016 present Reviewer, Positions: Asia Critique Reviewer, The Journal of Korean Studies Reviewer, Korean Studies: Journal of the Center for Korean Studies Reviewer, Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal Reviewer, Acta Koreana Reviewer, SAI -9-
COURSES OFFERED IN KOREAN Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Cinema Studies, Korean National University of Arts. Visual Sociology Seminar (I462100); March 2012 August 2012. Topics in Korean Film History (I144070); September 2011 February 2012. Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Dongguk University. Visual Sociology (SOC4010-01); March 2012 August 2012. Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Culture & Liberal Arts, Korea National Open University. Culture Industry and Cultural Planning; March 2011 April 2011. Co-teaching with Professor Ki-Soo Eun, G.S.I.S, Seoul National University. Korean Society (8754.715); March 2011 August 2011; March 2012 August 2012. -10-