CEDARBOUGH T. SAEJI Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies 3655 Wesbrook Mall #116 / Vancouver BC / V6S 0G6 / CANADA 778 929 4464 • [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. 2012 Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) Dissertation: "Transmission and Performance: Memory, Heritage, and Authenticity in Korean Mask Dance Dramas" M.A. 2006 Korean Studies, (Seoul, Republic of Korea) B.A. 1993 Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine)

WORK EXPERIENCE University of British Columbia 2016-2018 Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow, Department of Asian Studies . ASIA 327 Korean Popular Music in Context (six times) . ASIA 367 Contemporary Korean Culture

Korea University 2015-2016 Research Associate, Research Institute of Korean Studies

2015-2016 Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies . Theories of Traditional Performance I (2015) . Theories of Traditional Performance II (2016)

2014-2016 Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of International Studies, Department of Korean Studies . Modern Korean History (2014, 2015, 2016) . Korean Culture (2015)

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 2013-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Korean Studies . Introduction to Korean Studies I and II . Modern Korean History . Korean Cultural Heritage . Korean Folklore . Understanding Korean Media . Introduction to Korean Culture and Society (team-taught) . Contemporary Korean Culture and Society (taught in Korean twice, English twice) . Introduction to Korean Music: Pungmul Drumming (team-taught) . Contemporary Popular Culture (World Comparative)

University of California, Los Angeles 2012-2013 Research Associate, Center for Korean Studies 2011-12 Teaching Associate (4 courses)

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2008-09 Teaching Associate (3 courses)

Dankook University 2011 Adjunct Instructor, International Summer Program . Korean Performance

PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles: 2016 "The Audience as a Force for Preservation: A Typology of Audiences for the Traditional Performing Arts." Korea Journal 56, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 5-31.

2014 "Creating Regimes of Value through Curation at the National Museum of Korea." Acta Koreana 17, no. 2 (December 2014): 609-637.

2013 "Juvenile Protection and Sexual Objectification: Analysis of the Performance Frame in Korean Music Television Broadcasts." Acta Koreana 16, no. 2 (December 2013): 277-312.

2013 "Drumming, Dancing and Drinking Makgeolli: Liminal Time-Travel through Intensive Camps Teaching Traditional Performing Arts." Journal of Korean Studies 19, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 61-88.

Journal Articles: 2015 "The Sijang as a Site of Korean Cultural Heritage." Korean Heritage 8, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 38-43.

2014 "The Republic of Korea and Curating Displays of Koreanness: Guest Editor's Introduction." Acta Koreana 17, no. 2 (December 2014): 523-536.

2012 "The Bawdy, Brawling, Boisterous World of Korean Mask Dance Dramas" (with photo essay). Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (e-journal no. 4). Available online at http://cross- currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-4/Saeji. Also published in Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 1, no. 2 (November 2012): 439-468.

2012 "Performance Review: Cheonha Je'il Talgongjakso's 'Chushyeoyo' and Ta'ak Project's 'Good Pan'." Asian Theatre Journal 29, no. 1 (Summer 2012): 291-301.

2011 "The Progression of Korean Dance." Korea 7, no. 6 (June 2011): 2-10.

Book Chapters: [2018] "Replacing Faith in Spirits with Faith in Heritage: A Story of the Management of the Gangneung Danoje Festival." In Intangible Heritage Second Edition, edited by Laurajane Smith and Natsuko Akagawa. London: Routledge.

2017 "An Unexpected Voice: Performance, Gender, and Protecting Tradition in Korean Mask Dance Dramas." In Women in Asian Performance: Aesthetics and Politics, edited by Arya Mandavan. 142-156. London: Routledge.

2016 "Cosmopolitan Strivings and Racialization: The Foreign Dancing Body in Korean Popular Music Videos." In Korean Screen Cultures: Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games, edited by Andrew David Jackson and Colette Balmain. 257-92. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers.

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2015 "Protection and Transmission of Korean Folk Theatre." In Korean Musicology Series 7: Yeonhui: Korean Performing Arts. 247-267. Seoul: National Gugak Center.

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries: 2016 Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre. Edited by Siyuan Liu. Entries: "Korean Dance" (114-117), "Korean Mask Dance Drama" (157-160), and "Korean Traditional Theatre in Modern Korea" (495-497).

2016 Encyclopedia of Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania. Edited by Jeremy M. Murray and Kathleen M. Nadeau. Entries on "Korean Pop Music" and "Korean Fashion." ABL-CLIO.

2014 Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Edited by Robert Buswell, Jr. and Donald Lopez. Wrote entries related to Korean and Japanese Buddhism.

Book Reviews: [2017] "Book Review: 'SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World' by Keith Howard." Ethnomusicology Forum.

[2017] "Book Review: 'Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan' by Michelle Bigenho." Journal of Folklore Research.

2017 "Book Review: 'UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspective on Intangible Cultural Heritage' by Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman." Western Folklore 76 (3): 364-367.

2015 "Book Review: 'Korean Musicology Series 6: Korean Dance' by the National Gugak Center." Journal of Korean Dance Historiography 37, (June 2015): 227-237.

2014 Dissertation Review of Mark Andrew Nathan's "Buddhist Propagation and Modernization: The Significance of P’ogyo in Twentieth-Century Korean Buddhism" available at http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/8018.

2014 "Book Review: 'Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society' by Victoria L. Bestor, Theodore Bestor and Akiko Yamagata, eds." Journal of International and Global Studies 5, no. 2: 150-152.

2013 "Book Review: 'Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools' by David G. Hebert." Ethnomusicology Review. Available online at http://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/ two- reviews-wind-bands-and-cultural-identity-japanese-schools

2011 "Book Review: 'Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism and Performance' by Laurel Kendall, Editor." New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 13, no. 2 (2011): 93-96.

Translation: 2011 Translation: Yi, Hunsang. "Reflections on the Intangible Cultural Heritage Policy and Folk Culture Politics in the Postmodern Era: An Autoethnographic Account of the Reconstruction of Kasan Ogwangdae." Korean Social Sciences Review 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-35.

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Professional Copy-editing: [2018] Korean Musicology Series 9: Vocal Music. Seoul. National Gugak Center. 2017 Korean Musicology Series 8: Korean Court Music. Seoul: National Gugak Center. 2016 Modern Geomungo for Composers: Introduction and Application, by Kim Jun-yeong. Seoul: Misokwon. 2015 Korean Musicology Series 7: Yeonhui: Korean Performing Arts. Seoul: National Gugak Center.

ACADEMIC AWARDS 2016-17 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in North America 2014 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Faculty Research Grant 2013 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Faculty Research Grant 2011-12 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship 2010-11 Fulbright-Hays Fieldwork Fellowship 2010-11 UCLA International Institute Fieldwork Fellowship 2010-11 Asian Cultural Council Grant 2009 UCLA Chancellor’s Summer Research Mentorship 2008 Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, Travel Grant 2008 UCLA Chancellor’s Summer Research Mentorship 2007-12 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship 2007-08 UCLA Alumni Foundation Fellowship 2007-09 UCLA International Institute Global Scholar 2006 Yonsei University Korean Studies Graduation Award for Academic Excellence 2006 Yonsei University Korean Studies Graduation Award for Best Master’s Thesis 2004-06 Korea Foundation Fellow 2005-06 Recipient of the Yonsei Academic Excellence Scholarship

RESIDENCIES AND PROGRAMS 2016 Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin, July A workshop on performance-related concepts in Korean for a future joint publication 2013 National Museum of Korea Museum Fellowship Program Participant, Seoul Two week program in History and Archaeology run by the National Museum of Korea 2012 East-West Center Residency, Manoa, Hawai'i Residency in coordination with the exhibition on Korean mask dance dramas 2009 Kyujanggak Summer Program for Korean Studies, Seoul Two week program in Korean history, taught entirely in Korean.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Panels Organized: 2017 "Koreanness” on Display: From the Museum to the Musical Stage," Association for Asian Studies, Toronto (Mar. 18) 2016 "The Futures of Communities and Intangible Heritage: Social Pressures and Local Responses in Korea, Japan, and China," AAS-in-Asia, Kyoto (Jun. 24-27) 2016 "Producing Popularity: Behind the Scenes of the K-Pop Wonderland," Association for Asian Studies, Seattle (Mar. 31- Apr. 2) 2015 "Gender Equality in the Arts?: Women Performing in Male Spaces and Male Roles," Society for Ethnomusicology, Austin (Dec. 3-6) 2014 "Authenticity, Ideology, and Economics: Curating and Presenting Korea's Heritage," Kyujanggak East Asia Print Culture and Archives Conference, Seoul (Aug. 21-22)

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2014 "Curating Korea: Stories and Spaces in Conversation," Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia (Mar. 27-30) 2013 "Cultural Policy, Heritage Protection, and the Performing Arts: Perspectives from Haiti, Mexico, and the Republic of Korea," Society for Ethnomusicology, Indianapolis (Nov. 14-17) 2013 "Crossing Boundaries through the Performing Arts," Association for Asian Studies, San Diego (Mar. 21-24) 2012 "Education and Intangible Heritage: Transmission and Reception in East Asia" Association for Asian Studies, Toronto (Mar. 18)

Papers Presented: [2017] "Creativity and Precarity: Young Artists as the Future of Korean Traditional Theatre," Society for Ethnomusicology, Denver (Oct. 26) [2017] "No Frame to Fit it All: Korean Studies on and off the Peninsula," Writing Korean Culture, Seoul (Sep. 22) 2017 "Reading Traditional Iconography within Korean Music Videos," Korean Screen Culture Conference, Hamburg (Jun. 16) 2017 "Dynamic Korea on Display: Commodification of Tradition in Performances for Tourists," Association for Asian Studies, Toronto (Mar. 18) 2017 "Visuality over Substance in Performances of ‘Tradition’ for Tourists," Society for Ethnomusicology Pacific Northwest Chapter, Olympia WA. (Mar. 4) 2016 "Ameliorating Precarity for Traditional Artists: An Expanded Role for Preservation Associations," AAS-in Asia, Kyoto (Jun. 26) 2016 " Discourses and Practices in the Korean Traditional Arts: Learning is Never Done, Mat, and Locality," Society for East Asian Anthropology, Hong Kong (Jun. 22) 2016 "Behind the Scenes: Cover Dancers as K-Pop Resource," Association for Asian Studies, Seattle 2015 "An Unexpected Voice?: Women Taking on New Roles in Korean Mask Dance Drama," Society for Ethnomusicology, Austin (Dec. 5) 2015 "The Language of Dance: Learning Korea through K-Pop Cover Dance?" Korean Screen Culture Conference, Copenhagen (May 29) 2014 "Case Study: Capitalizing on Korean Heritage," 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Ethnomusicology, Seoul (Nov. 6) 2014 "Creating Regimes of Value through Curation at the National Museum of Korea" at the Kyujanggak East Asia Print Culture and Archives Conference, Seoul (Aug. 21) 2014 "Sexuality and Authenticity: The Foreign Dancing Body in Korean Popular Music Videos" at the Korean Screen Culture Conference, Sheffield (June 14) 2014 "Framing Korea: State Ideologies and the Modern Museum," Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia (Mar. 27) 2013 "Staging the Elderly: The Impact of Cultural Policy on the Age of Performers," Society for Ethnomusicology, Indianapolis, (Nov. 17) 2013 "Learning Is Never Done: Age and Performance in the Korean Context," Association for Asian Studies, San Diego (Mar. 22) 2013 "The Construction of the Feminine in Korean Popular Music: A Performance Analysis of "I AM: SMTown Live" and Multi-Artist Musical Variety Shows," International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Austin (Mar. 1) 2012 "Capitalizing on Korean Heritage?" Association for Asian Studies, Toronto (Mar. 18) 2011 "Preservation and Transformation: A New Generation of Mask Dance Drama Performers in Korea," Society for Ethnomusicology, Philadelphia (Nov. 18) 2011 "In Front of the Mask: An Analysis of how Korean Traditional Performances are Presented to the Public," International Society of Korea Scholars, Vancouver, Canada (Aug. 24) 2011 "Drumming, Dancing and Makgeolli: Liminal Time-Travel through Participation in Performing Arts,"

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Academic Conference in conjunction with Bupyeong Pungmul Festival (presentation in Korean), Bupyeong, Korea 2010 "Discourses of Place in Tibetan Song: Comparison and Contrast of Recordings Produced in and out of China," China Undisciplined, Los Angeles, CA 2009 "The Cultural Property Protection Law: Tensions and Dissonance Revealed by Examining the Differences between First and Second Generation Performance Professionals," Kyujanggak International Korean Studies Symposium, Seoul 2009 "Korean Pop Culture: The Border Crossing Heroines of Hallyu," International Association for the Study of Popular Music, San Diego, CA 2009 "The Cultural Property Protection Law and the Second Generation of Korean Traditional Performance Professionals," Colorado University East Asia Graduate Student Conference, Boulder, CO 2009 "Analysis of a Korean Drama: The Grandmother Scene in Hwanghae and Gyeonggi Mask Dance Dramas," Society of Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai’i Chapter, Los Angeles, CA 2008 "The Journey Makes the Meaning: An Ethnographic Account of Pilgrims Prostrating to Lhasa," China Undisciplined, Los Angeles, CA 2008 "Legitimization and Utilization of Bongsan Talchum in Korean Society," Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter, Santa Barbara, CA 2008 "A Strategic Choice: Taekwondo as a Rallying Point for Korean Nationalism," East Asia Graduate Student Conference, New York, NY 2006 "Professionalization and Korean Traditional Performing Arts: Bongsan Talchum’s Preeminence amongst Korean Mask Dance Dramas." Pacific Asia Conference on Korean Studies, New Delhi, India

INVITED TALKS 2017 "Embodied Archives of Authenticity: Age and Performance in the Korean Context" 69th Societas Koreana Lecture Meeting, Seoul (Jun. 28) 2016 "Korean Heritage Policy," University of Western Australia (Sep. 12 via Skype) 2016 "전통 예술가를 위한 고용 불안 완화: 보존회의 역할 확대," Pink Factory Art Space, Hongcheon (May 28) 2016 "K-pop, Hip-Hop, and Race," Paichai University, Daejeon (May 27) 2016 "해외등재지 준비를 위한 생각보다 훨씬 중요한 논문 작성의 항목," a workshop on publishing in foreign journals sponsored by the Society for Dance Documentation and History (May 21) 2016 "The Comfort Women, Prostitution, and Marriage Migrants in Korea," a special lecture as part of a two week program in Korea for students of Spelman College in Atlanta, GA (May 11) 2016 "Women's Issues and Concerns in Contemporary Korea," Council of International Educational Exchange participants at Yonsei University, Seoul (Mar. 10) 2015 "Can a Women Play Malddugi?: The Politics of Gender and Protecting the Tradition of Korean Mask Dance Dramas," Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch (Nov. 21) 2015 "Asian Theatre: A Comparative Overview," Ewha Woman's University (Nov. 5) 2015 "An Introduction to Korean Mask Dance Dramas," , Bloomington (Oct. 29 via Skype) 2014 "An Overview of Korean History," Korea Foundation Educational Service (Dec. 1) 2014 "Teaching Korean Studies in the Republic of Korea," The International Conference of Korean Educators Abroad (Jul. 28) 2014 " and Culture," Korea Foundation Educational Service (Jul. 29) 2014 "Promoting Korean Culture to the World," Korean-American Student Conference, (Jul. 3) 2013 "Korea's Traditional Mask Dance Dramas in the Modern Era," Seoul National University 2013 "Etiquette, Language, Demographic Change, Traditional Culture and Popular Arts in Korea: A Six Hour Lecture." Freeman Foundation 2013 National Consortium for Teaching Asia Seminar. LaGrange, Georgia (May 30)

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2012 "Learning is Never Done: Age and Performance in the Korean Context," , Center for Korean Studies Colloquium (Nov. 19) 2012 "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Korea," University of Washington course on Modern Korean Society and Culture (Nov. 15) 2012 "Keeping a Tradition Alive: Issues with Preservation and Transmission of Korean Mask Dance Dramas" University of Hawai'i East-West Center Gallery (Nov. 11) 2012 "Korean Mask Dance Dramas," Hawai'i Pacific University (Nov. 9) 2011 "The Mask Dance Traditions of Korea," Seoul National University 2010 "The Mask Dance Traditions of Korea," Seoul National University 2009 "The Fieldwork Experience," OTIS College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2009 "Modern Korean Religiosity," Yonsei International Summer School 2009 "Protection Systems for Korean Traditional Culture," Yonsei International Summer School 2008 "Changing Gender Roles in the Korean Workplace and Home," Yonsei International Summer School 2008 "An Introduction to Korean Traditional Performing Arts," Yonsei International Summer School

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE and MEMBERSHIPS Service: 2017-2020 Executive Committee, Committee on Korean Studies of the Association for Asian Studies 2016-present Museum of Shamanism (Seoul, Korea) Board of Directors 2015-present 무용역사기록학회 국제위원장 Int'l Team Leader, Soc. for Dance Documentation and History 2014-present Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Asian Politics and History 2013-2016 Liaison for the Dance, Movement and Gesture Section (Society for Ethnomusicology) 2012-2014 Assistant Editor, Journal of Asian Politics and History 2012-present Advisory Board Member for the journal Ethnomusicology Review 2011- 2014 Newsletter Editor, Association for Korean Music Research (Society for Ethnomusicology) 2011-12 Graduate student representative, Campus Activities Committee Center for Student Programming, UCLA 2009-10 School of Arts & Architecture Representative Graduate Students Association Forum, UCLA 2009-10 World Arts and Cultures Graduate Student Association Representative School of Arts & Architecture Graduate Students' Council, UCLA 2009-10 World Arts and Cultures Graduate Student Association Representative Dean's Council of the School of Arts & Architecture, UCLA 2008-10 Graduate Student Reading Room Coordinator, Department of World Arts and Cultures 2008-10 Organizer of the Chew on This lunchtime lecture series, UCLA 2008-9 Founder and Co-Coordinator, Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, UCLA

Peer Reviews: Acta Koreana Dance Research Journal Ethnomusicology Review Museum Management and Curatorship Journal of Asian Politics and History Celebrity Studies 무용역사기록학 (The Journal of Dance Historiography) Seoul Journal of Korean Studies

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The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

Memberships: 무형유산학회 – Intangible Heritage Association 한국전통공연예술학회 – Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association 무용역사기록학회 – The Society for Dance Documentation and History 한국춤문화자료원 – Korean Dance Research Council AAS: Association for Asian Studies SEM: Society for Ethnomusicology Association for Korean Music Research Dance/Movement/Gesture Section AAA: American Anthropological Association IASPM: International Association for the Study of Popular Music APHA: Asian Politics and History Association

LANGUAGES English (native) Korean (fluent) Mandarin Chinese (high intermediate speaking, low reading and writing) Amdo-Tibetan (fair speaking, low reading and writing)

ARTISTIC and MOVEMENT PRACTICES Performance: Goseong Ogwangdae mask dance drama Songpa Sandae Noli mask dance drama Songpa Dari Balpgi seasonal festival Bongsan Talchum mask dance drama Imsil Pilbong Nongak (sangmo) drumming and dancing (specializing in ribbon hat) UCLA Korean Music and Dance Ensemble 2007-2012

Advanced Martial Arts: Hapkido Taekkyon Taiji (Tai'chi Chuan)

Other activities: Cyclist Photographer

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