Areum Jeong
M.A. '08
Areum Jeong is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator of Korean and Korean diasporic cinema, literature, popular culture, theatre and performance. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Beyond the Sewol: Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora (University of Hawai’i Press, September 2025) and K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today (University of Michigan Press, February 2026).
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. - Theater and Performance Studies
Los Angeles, California
New York University
M.A. - Performance Studies
New York, New York
Ewha W. University
B.A. - English Literature
Seoul, South Korea