Selected Presentations & Appearances
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era
· February 2022
Lecture
Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University,
“Dainty As Needs Be”: Madame Butterfly and Cosmetic Yellowface
· January 2022
Invited Talk
Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University,
Yellowface, Asian Stereotypes, and Media Representation
· September 2021
Invited Talk
Advantage Solutions,
“American Theater: History and Current Landscape”
- Speaker Series of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
· April 2021
Invited Talk
Forum for Cultural Engagement,
AAPI Heritage Month Discussion Panel
· March 2021
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Environmental Protection Agency-RTP Branch,
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era
· February 2022
Lecture
Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University,
“Dainty As Needs Be”: Madame Butterfly and Cosmetic Yellowface
· January 2022
Invited Talk
Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University,
Yellowface, Asian Stereotypes, and Media Representation
· September 2021
Invited Talk
Advantage Solutions,
“American Theater: History and Current Landscape”
- Speaker Series of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
· April 2021
Invited Talk
Forum for Cultural Engagement,
AAPI Heritage Month Discussion Panel
· March 2021
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Environmental Protection Agency-RTP Branch,
“Acting Asian: Theatrical Makeup and the Technology of Yellowface”
- Looking Back to the Future: 20 Years of A/P/A Studies in the Five Colleges
· March 2020
Invited Talk
Smith College,
“The Many Faces of DHH: David Henry Hwang and Asian American Theatre”
- The Worlds of David Henry Hwang Symposium sponsored by Illuminations
· November 2019
Invited Talk
University of California, Irvine,
“Korean Diaspora and the Moebius Strip”
- Triangle East Asia Colloquium, Transnational Korean Cinema & Media Conference
· March 2019
Keynote/Named Lecture
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Historiography of Yellowface: Stage Makeup, Materiality, and Technology
- Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama Distinguished Lecture
· February 13, 2019
Keynote/Named Lecture
Northwestern University,
“History of Yellowface in the U.S"
- Thomas Langford Lecture
· February 2019
Keynote/Named Lecture
Duke University,
Theatre History Symposium Respondent
- The 39th Annual Mid-American Theatre Conference
· March 2018
Invited Talk
Mid-American Theatre Conference,
Milwaukee, WI
The Theatre of David Henry Hwang
· July 2017
Invited Talk
English Department, Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea
Korean Diaspora Theatre
- Korean Diaspora Festival Symposium
· July 2017
Invited Talk
National Theater Company of Korea,
Seoul, Korea
The Archetypal Eurasian and Yellowface Makeup: The Material History of Imagined Asianness and Whiteness
- Performance, Race, Objects, and Time/Temporality
· April 2017
Invited Talk
James Gallery/Center for the Humanities,
New York City
Korean Avant-Garde Theatre and Sung Rno’s Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen
- Institute for Korean Studies
· March 2017
Invited Talk
Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
Performance Related Concepts in Non-European Languages – Korean
- Interweaving Performance Cultures
· July 2016
International Meeting or Conference
Freie Universität ,
Berlin, Germany
Workshop participant
Korean American Playwrights
· November 2014
Invited Talk
Department of Theatre and Film, Hanyang University,
Seoul, Korea
The Theatricalized Body of Bruce Lee in David Henry Hwang’s Kung Fu
- NTU International Conference on Theatre
· November 2014
Invited Talk
Department of Drama and Theatre, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
Home: The State of Asian American Theatre
· October 2014
Invited Talk
National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Theatricalized Body of Bruce Lee in David Henry Hwang’s Kung Fu
· April 2014
Invited Talk
School of Drama, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
All the Stage’s a World: The Organization of International, Multicultural, and Global Theatre Companies in the U.S.
- Asian American Theater & Performance Studies Symposium
· March 2013
Invited Talk
Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Remember to Forget’: A Study of the Family in Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the U.S.
- The 19th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities: “Staging Korea: Korean Theatre in Search of New Aesthetics”
· November 2011
Invited Talk
George Washington University,
Washington, DC
The Dynamism of Aesthetics in Asian American Theatre
- Next Big Bang: The Explosion of Asian American Theatre
· June 2006
Invited Talk
East West Players,
Los Angeles, CA
Service to the Profession
Editorial Board Member
·
2017
Editorial Activities
The Journal of Drama,
Seoul, Korea
Vice President for Publications
·
2017
- 2019
Event/Organization Administration
American Society for Theatre Research,
Editorial Board Member
- Journal of American Drama and Theatre
·
2013
Editorial Activities
Editor
- Theatre Survey
·
2013
- 2014
Editorial Activities
American Society for Theatre Research,
Associate Editor
- Theatre Survey
·
2011
- 2012
Editorial Activities
American Society for Theatre Research,
Editorial Board Member
·
2017
Editorial Activities
The Journal of Drama,
Seoul, Korea
Vice President for Publications
·
2017
- 2019
Event/Organization Administration
American Society for Theatre Research,
Editorial Board Member
- Journal of American Drama and Theatre
·
2013
Editorial Activities
Editor
- Theatre Survey
·
2013
- 2014
Editorial Activities
American Society for Theatre Research,
Associate Editor
- Theatre Survey
·
2011
- 2012
Editorial Activities
American Society for Theatre Research,
Founding Organizer
·
September 2009
Event/Organization Administration
Consortium of PhD Programs in Theatre and Performance Studies,
Urbana, IL
Member of the Executive Committee
·
2004
- 2007
Committee Service
American Society for Theatre Research,
Service to Duke
Asian American Studies Cluster Hire Search Committee
(University)
·
2020
- 2021
Committee Service
Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure
(University)
·
2020
Committee Service
Search Committee - ICS
(Program)
·
2018
Committee Service
Chair Advisory Committee
(Department)
·
2018
Committee Service
Curriculum Committee
(Department)
·
2018
Committee Service
Asian American Studies Cluster Hire Search Committee
(University)
·
2020
- 2021
Committee Service
Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure
(University)
·
2020
Committee Service
Search Committee - ICS
(Program)
·
2018
Committee Service
Chair Advisory Committee
(Department)
·
2018
Committee Service
Curriculum Committee
(Department)
·
2018
Committee Service
Asian American Studies Program Steering Committee
(Program)
·
2018
Committee Service
Arts & Sciences Council
(Department)
·
2018
Committee Service