Faculty
Namhee Han
Assistant Professor of Korean and East Asian Studies
Queens Hall, Room 345G
Phone: 718-997-5574
namhee.han@qc.cuny.edu
PhD, University of Chicago
Professor Han’s teaching and research interests include the cultural history of modern Korea, the theories and histories of Korean and East Asian cinemas, technology and modernity, censorship in cultural industries, the Vietnam War and Cold War Korean popular media, and postcolonial visual archives. Her works appear in Acta Koreana, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Voyage to Discovery, and “Postwar” Japanese Cinema.
She is currently working on two research projects. First, she is completing her book manuscript, Between Screens: Cold War Transnationalism and Widescreen Culture in South Korea and Japan, 1950s to 1970s. She argues that South Korean and Japanese widescreen works fall under both aesthetic and political realms, where ruptures and discontinuities from colonialism to the global Cold War were articulated in the transnational and intermedial screen practices between cinema and television and across wartime and postwar representational modes. Second, she is developing the second book project tentatively entitled, Networked Mourning: Visual Colonial Korea in Digital East Asia. Investigating the interregional and cross-media presence of digitally-mediated visual works of and about colonial Korea in history museums and at historic sites in East Asia, she explores how digitally restored and displayed colonial documents offer affectively networked, but politically contentious, viewing experiences.
Professor Han’s works comprise interdisciplinary, transnational, and cross-media approaches to the intersection of technology, moving image works, and the public—the location where modern Korean aesthetic, social, and political practices interconnect. Actively integrating the academic into the public realm, she is also committed to serving the community by organizing film screening events and being involved in international cultural organizations.