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Soo Ryon Yoon
East Asia Chair
Soo Ryon Yoon (she/her/그) is an NRF academic research professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University. Her research on race and performance has appeared in positions: asia critique, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Performance Research, and GPS: Global Performance Studies, among others. She is currently working on her monograph titled Choreographing Affinities: Race, Performance, and Afro-Asian Connections in South Korea. She has taught performance and cultural studies courses at Northwestern University, Yale University, Lingnan University, and Ewha Womans University.