Profile

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary. I received M.A. in the Interdisciplinary Performing Arts Studies Program from Seoul National University in 2016 and completed my Ph.D. in Performance Studies at the University of Alberta in 2023.

I am an interdisciplinary scholar trained in theatre and performance studies, with a research specialization in 20th- and 21st-century literature, performance, television drama, film, and culture. Drawing on multiple emerging fields of literary and cultural studies—critical age studies and dementia studies, health humanities, postcolonial studies, and disability studies/crip theory—my research investigates the intersections of age and aging, gender, race, health, and medicine.

My SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research, "Cultural Dance for Dementia: Co-Creating Culturally Grounded Dance with Immigrant Older Adults Living with Dementia" (2025-2027), explores cultural inclusivity in a community-based creative program. This research examines how a culturally enabling program can support embodied memory, selfhood, and creativity of the participants.