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OH CV, Page 1 of 7 YOUJEONG OH 120 Inner Campus Drive G9300 Department of Asian Studies The University of Texas at Austin EDUCATION Ph.D., Geography, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 2013 MUP, Urban Planning, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2005 M.S., Urban Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea 2003 B.A., Urban Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea (Summa cum laude) 2001 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies 2020 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, 2014 - 2020 The University of Texas at Austin Faculty Affiliate, Department of Geography & the Environment 2019 - present Faculty Affiliate, Center for East Asian Studies 2014 - present PUBLICATIONS Books 1. Oh, Y. (2018). Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 238 pp. Reviewed in: Pacific Affairs (2019) 92(4): 797-799. Journal of Korean Studies (2019) 24 (2): 418-421. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (2019) 5(2): 207-208. Cultural Sociology (2020) 14(1): 106-107. The Journal of Popular Culture (2020) 53(2): 510-512. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2. Oh, Y. (2020). From concrete walls to digital walls: transmedia construction of place myth in Ihwa Mural Village, South Korea. Media, Culture & Society 42(7-8), 1326-1342. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720916410. 3. Oh, Y. (2017). Global Flows and the Changing Place Identity of Myŏng-dong. Journal of Korean Studies, 22(1), 177-195. 4. Oh, Y. (2014). Korean Television Dramas and the Political Economy of City Promotion. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(6), 2141-2155. Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters 5. Oh, Y. (2019). Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins. In J. Song & L. Hae (Eds.), On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. pp. 43-64. 1/19/21 OH CV, Page 2 of 7 6. Oh, Y. (2016). The Developmental State in Urban Modernity: Two State-Led Urban Developments in South Korea. In H. Y. Lee & S. Kim (Eds.), The Changing Role of the Korean State. In the Post Developmental Era (39-47). Berlin, Germany: Logos Verlag Berlin. 7. Oh, Y. (2015). The Interactive Nature of Korean TV Dramas: Flexible Texts, Discursive Consumption, and Social Media. In S. Lee & A. M. Nornes (Eds.), Hallyu 2.0: Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (133-153). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries and Other Non-Peer Reviewed Articles 8. Oh, Y. (2015). Review of The Korean Popular Culture Reader, by K. H. Kim & Y. Choe. The Journal of Asian Studies, 74 (1), 226-228. RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS 2020-2023 Humanist Research Award. UT Austin “Placing Periphery: Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju, South Korea.” 2021-2022 Faculty Research Award. UT Austin 2021-2022 The Academy of Korean Studies Grant “Placing Periphery: Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju.” 2018-2020 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin. “Digital Storytelling and Changing Landscape of South Korea.” 2018 Vice President for Research (VPR) Special Research Grants. UT Austin. 2017 “Evicted by Park, Sold by Lee: Accumulation by Dispossession in Jungmun Tourism Complex.” Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council. 2015 College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts. UT Austin. 2015 Summer Faculty Research Assignment. UT Austin. 2014 “Dramatic City: The Korean Wave and the Globalization of Myeong-dong. Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council. 2012-2013 Hass Junior Scholars Program Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2012 AAS Annual Conference Travel Grant for Graduate Students, The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies 2012 The Republic of China East Asian Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2012 Graduate Division Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley 2011 Dean’s Normative Term Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 2011 UC Pacific Rim Research Program Advanced Graduate Research Fellowship 2011 Summer Research Grants, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2011 Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (Declined) 1/19/21 OH CV, Page 3 of 7 2010-2011 Hass Junior Scholars Program Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2007-2011 Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship, South Korea 2010 Koret Foundation Fellowship, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2008-2009 Academy of Korean Studies Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2007-2009 Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks “Instagrammable Places: Aesthetic Representation and Contested Urban Transformation.” Department of Radio-Film-Television, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin. On Zoom. March 2021. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Center for Critical Korean Studies. University of California, Irvine. On Zoom. October 2020. “Global Desires and Urban Practices in East Asia.” Symposium “Global Professional Training: East and Southeast Asia.” Texas Global, The University of Texas at Austin. On Zoom. October 2020. “Instagrammable Places: Aesthetic Representation and Contested Urban Transformation.” Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute, International Center for Korean Studies. On Zoom. July 2020. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute, International Center for Korean Studies. On Zoom. June 2020. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Center for the Study of Korea. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. February 2020. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Nam Center for Korean Studies. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. November 2019. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Department of Geography. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. October 2019. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Department of Geography & the Environment. The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. March 2019. “Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place.” Center for East Asian Studies. The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. February 2019. “Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins.” Graduate School of Environmental Studies. Seoul National University. Seoul, South Korea. December 2017. “Cosme Road: Budget Cosmetics and Changing Place Identity of Myeong-dong.” The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign, IL. October 2015. 1/19/21 OH CV, Page 4 of 7 “State- and Citizen-Driven Nationalisms and Mega Sport Events: Comparison of 1998 Seoul Olympic and 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.” Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. May 2008. Conference/Workshop Presentations “The Beach on Instagram: Digital Media-Induced Touristification of Woljeong.” Panel “Desiring Jeju: Place-making and Landscape at Korea’s Periphery.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. On Zoom. March 2021. “Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins.” Book Launch “On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis.” (in Korean.) Reconciliation and Coexistence in Contact Zones(RCCZ), ChungAng University. On Zoom. November 2020. “Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins.” Book Launch “On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis.” Center for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto / Korea Office for Research and Education, York University. On Zoom. September 2020. “The Beach on Instagram: Digital Media-Induced Touristification of Woljeong.” Panel “Desiring Jeju: Place-making and Landscape at Korea’s Periphery.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA. (Conference canceled due to COVID19). “Digital Storytelling and Changing Urban Landscapes in South Korea.” Humanist Institute Faculty Fellows Symposium. The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. February 2020. “Speculation on Spectacles in Jeju.” Panel “From Megaprojects to Embodied Networks: Emerging Perspectives on ‘Infrastructure’ in Contemporary South Korea.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Denver, CO. March 2019. “Right to the City in Top-dong, Jeju: Resident Movement for Value Capture in Land Reclamation.” The 9th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography. Daegu University, Seoul National University Asia Center. Daegu, South Korea. December 2018. “Jeju Island and the Politics of Dispossession at the Margin.” Populism, Alternative Truths, and Voices from the Fringe in Korea Conference. James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. April 2018. “Transnational Flows and the Rent Dynamics on Baozhen Street.” Round Table on “Transnational Urbanism in East Asian Contexts.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Asia. Korea University. Seoul, South Korea. June 2017. “The Politics of Residents over Dispossession, Privatization, and Repossession in Jungmun Tourism Complex.” Panel on “Asia as Method