Kim, Sohee

(M.A.)

2020 Sogang University (American Cultural Studies/Psychology, B.A.)

2022 Sogang University (American Cultural Studies, M.A.)

2023 Sogang University (Critical Global Studies, M.A.)

CGS MA Thesis: Construction of Hanbok in Memories of "Comfort Women": Fabricating the Patriarchal Nation through Fashion

Advisor: Kyung-Sook Boo

Advising Committee: Kyung-Sook Boo (CGS), Jie-Hyun Lim (CGS), Juyeon Bae (CGSI)

Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Fashion Studies, Women of Color, Intersectionality, Representation of Women

| About Sohee Kim | Sohee Kim received her B.A. in American Culture and Psychology, and her M.A. in American Cultural Studies at Sogang University. She graduated from the Critical Global Studies program with an M.A. degree on August 22, 2023. With the help of her thesis advisor Professor Kyung-Sook Boo and her academic advising committee—Professor Lim Jie-Hyun and Professor Bae Juyeon, she wrote her M.A. thesis titled, Construction of Hanbok in Memories of “Comfort Women”: Fabricating the Patriarchal Nation Through Fashion. Her thesis focused on the representation/memories of “comfort women” in hanbok and its meaning through her theory of hanbok as the “fashion of the patriarchal nation”. 

| Conference Presentations and Publications |

- April, 2023. “At the Crossroads of Fashion and Style in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (MELUS 2023 Conference, Indiana, U.S.).

- March, 2023. “Disrupting Historical Discourses on the Politics of Respectability through Fashion in George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020).” (Barnes Conference, Temple University, U.S.).

- February, 2023. "'Comfort Women' in Hanbok": Androcentric Nationalism Clothing in Cho Jung-rae's 2016 Film Kwihyang" (International Conference on Intercultural Humanities, Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia).

- October, 2022. “Diversifying the Representation of 'Comfort Women' in Style through Digital Exhibitions” (“Ethics, Evaluation and Emerging Methodologies in Digital Exhibitions and Complex Heritage”, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom).

- October, 2022. “Aloha Shirt: The Cultural Prostitution Clothing in Blue Hawaii (1961) and Beyond” (American Studies Association of Korea Annual Conference, Seoul, South Korea).

- Empowering Black Middle-Class Female Bodies in Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) Through the Strategic Use of Self-Defining Style. 2022, Sogang University, M.A.

- May, 2019. “Fashion-ology and Country Music: Study into the Change of Fashion in Country Music” (American Studies Association of Korea Undergraduate Workshop, Seoul, South Korea).

| Next Chapter in Sohee's Journey |

- Sohee Kim matriculated in the PhD program of the English Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, starting in August of 2023.

Song, Gayoon

(M.A.)

E-mail: sgy8923[at]gmail.com 
2022 Sogang University (Art&Technology, B.A.)

2024 Sogang University (Critical Global Studies, M.A.)

CGS MA Thesis: A Study on Hybrid Reader Response Contestation in Namsunghyang/Yeosunghyang Hybrid Narrative Structure of Shinmuhyup Web Novels: Focusing on the Hwasan-Gwihwan and the female character “Dang Soso”

Advisor: Hyun Kyung Lee

Advising Committee: Hyung Kyung Lee (CGS), Ki Yoon Jang (CGS), Juyeon Bae (CGSI)

Research Interests: Media Literacy, Web Novels

| About Gayoon Song | Gayoon Song received her B.A. in Art&Technology from Sogang University. By her experiences, she is interested in Media Literacy and now her research focuses on shinmuhyup web novels.