Grace Jung

Grace Jung (she/they) earned her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles with fifteen years of media industry experience in New York and Los Angeles as a filmmaker, producer, writer and performer. She specializes in Korean television, film, comedy, gender and queer studies. She is the author of K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television. Her academic articles are published in Media, Culture & Society, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Jump Cut, and more. Grace has also translated Korean literature by authors such as Yi Sang, Kim Tongin, and Yi Chong-jun. She is a former Fulbright scholar. Grace is teaching Korean studies courses on K-dramas, shamans, clowns, zombies, and literature.