Profile

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary. I received an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Performing Arts Studies 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 dramatic 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, "Moving through Dementia: Enabling Embodied Creativity of Immigrants Living with Dementia through Culturally Tailored Movement Program" (2025-2027), aims to develop a strength-based dance program in collaboration with Korean Canadian older adults with dementia. This research examines how a dementia-centric and culturally enabling program can support embodied memory, selfhood, and creativity of the participants with lived experiences of dementia.