Dr. Chuyun Oh

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• http://www.onizlab.com/20

Bio

Chuyun Oh (PhD. Performance Studies, UT Austin) is a Fulbright scholar and Associate Professor of Dance Theory/Practice at San Diego State University. Dr. Oh is the author of K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (Routledge), an Amazon New Release bestseller in 2022, which was shortlisted for Dance Studies Association (DSA)’s de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award. As a pioneer of K-pop dance studies, she offers the first K-pop dance theory course in the US and issues "K-pop Creator Certificates" from her research institute Oniz Lab. Her award-winning scholarship and performances on pop dance and ethnography have received multiple national and international grants and appeared in over sixty global media, thirty keynote speeches and book talks, anthologies, and top-tier journals, including Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicle, Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Communication, Culture & Critique, The International Journal of the History of Sport, and The Journal of Popular Culture, etc. Starting classical ballet training at Kirov Academy of Ballet/Sun Hwa Arts School at the age of seven, she performed across the world as a professional ballet and modern dancer during her early career, receiving international dance competition awards. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Guest Choreographer at Hamilton College, NY. She serves on Text and Performance Quarterly and Dance Chronicle Editorial Boards, and DSA’s the de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award committee.

Education

• Ph.D. Performance Studies (Portfolio in Gender Studies), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
• M.A. Aesthetics, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea
• B.A. Dance & Philosophy (minor), Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea

Areas of Specialization

Languages

Awards & Honors

1. A Short List of the de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize, Dance Studies Association, 2023
2. The Division of Research and Innovation (DRI), RSCA Assigned Time Award, 2024
3. SDSU PSFA Dean's Award, 2023
4. Top Paper, Korean American Communication Association, National Communication Association (NCA), 2019
5. Top Contributed Papers, Performance Studies Division, NCA, 2019
6. Top Contributed Performances, Performance Studies Division, NCA, 2018
7. Top Contributed Performances, Performance Studies Division, NCA, 2017
8. Top Contributed Performances, Performance Studies Division, NCA, 2016
9. Top Ten Downloaded Article of the Year 2015, The Journal of Fandom Studies.

Courses

Grants

Media

1. US & GLOBAL MEDIA COVERAGES
2. “Office Hours With Chuyun Oh, PhD, Leader of K-Pop Studies at San Diego State University, DanceTeacher, May 8, 2024.
3. “Rising Stars: Meet Dr. Chuyun Oh,” SD Voyager. Dec 18, 2023.
4. “K-pop dance is a result of generational arts education,” KOCIS, South Korean Government Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. October 13, 2023.
5. “Opinion: K-pop Isn’t Dance ‘Canon’, But it Opens Students Minds to Possibilities and Differences,” Times of San Diego. Sept 30, 2023.
6. “SDSU’s first ever K-pop class, SDSU Ignite perform at the Padres’ Korean Heritage night pre-show,” The Daily Aztec, Sept 25, 2023.
7. “미국, 'K-pop 댄스학원'까지... "이젠 장르다," MBC America News, June 17, 2023.
8. “As K-pop group BTS celebrates 10 years, the industry's future rests with its diehard fandom,” CBC News, June 20, 2023.
9. “K팝 칼군무, 이제 대학서 배운다” [K-pop synchronized dance is now taught in university], The Korea Daily, August 8, 2023.
10. “Summer Arts pick: K-pop gets the star treatment at Fresno State,” The Munro Review, July 14, 2023.
11. “Summer Arts gets ahead of the curve with a course and performances devoted to K-pop,” The Collegian, July 13, 2023.
12. “K-pop,” SDSU Minds in Motion, April 24, 2023. 
13. “SDSU to offer first-of-its-kind K-pop dance course with Dr. Chuyun Oh,” NextShark June 9, 2023. https://nextshark.com/sdsu-kpop-dance-course-chuyun-oh.
14. “E'LAST And Other K-Pop Groups' Teachers To Teach In A K-Pop Creation Course Offered In California State University.” May 8, 2023. Kpopmap.
15. “Turning Passion into Career: Opportunity to Become K-Pop Certified For K-Pop Fans In The US,” Kpopmap, Apr 27, 2023. 
16. “Choreographer to share insights on K-pop dance as part of WT Distinguished Lecture Series,” Yahoo News, March 5, 2023. 
17. “Professor to speak on K-pop dance fandom at WTAMU,” KFDA NewsChannel 10, March 7, 2023. 
18. “Guest choreographer to talk K-pop dance at West Texas A&M University event,” MyHighPlains, KAMR-TV, NBC, March 1, 2023.
19. “K-pop Dance” NPR, High Plains Public Radio All Things Considered, March 9, 2023.
20. K-pop Generation, Ep. 4. Netflix Asia, Tving, Apple TV, and Viki.
21. “BORN TO 춤 | Just Jerk(저스트절크) 의 가장 솔직한 이야기,” Mnet Plus, Feb 18, 2023
22. “Promoting K-pop Music and Its Dance,” Arirang News, Feb 22, 2023.
23. “Would you learn K-pop dance at university if there was a course on it?” The Korea Times, Feb 21, 2023.
24. “‘K-Pop Dance’ adopted as the first official curriculum in an American university- Opening at San Diego State University Fall Semester (‘K팝 댄스’ 미국대학 첫 정규과목 채택)” The Korea Herald, Jan 27, 2023.
25. “SDSU Dance offers the first K-pop Dance Curriculum in the States (SDSU 무용과 ‘K팝 댄스’ 개설),” The Korea Daily, Dec 2, 2022.
26. "All about K-pop Dance," Arirang TV News Center, Aug 9, 2022.
27. '댄스 장르'로 자리 잡은 K팝 / SBS / #더스페셜리스트" (K-pop as a dance genre), SBS Eight O'Clock News (Seoul Broadcasting System), Sept 3, 2022.
28. "K팝 아이돌은 가수이자 무용수… 오랜 훈련 거친 춤 보여줘" (K-pop idols are dancers as much as singers,” Kukmin Ilbo, July 30, 2022.
29. "살기 위해" BTS 춤춘 아이들에 놀라서 쓴 책…美아마존 1위" (A book written for children who danced BTS to live became No. 1 Amazon), JoongAng Daily, Aug 22, 2022.
30. "K팝 댄스, 이젠 춤 장르…기록 안하면 외국에 뺏길 수도" (K-pop dance is established an independent dance genre), JoongAng Daily 2022.
31. “K-pop cover dance is democratizing dance education," Korea Herald, July 27, 2022.
32. SD Voyager Magazine. “Meet Chuyun Oh of San Diego State University – San Diego’s Most Inspiring Stories.” SD Voyager Magazine. Jan 10, 2019. http://sdvoyager.com/interview/meet-chuyun-oh-san-diego-state-university-sdsu/.
33. Tebor, Celina. “In San Diego, Asian Americans are redefining themselves with collegiate hip hop dance crews.” The San Diego Union-Tribune. Dec 31, 2019. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/story/2019-12-31/in-san-diego-asian-americans-are-redefining-themselves-through-collegiate-hip-hop-dance-crews. 
34. Marx, Jesse. “Culture Report: Bringing Music and Dance to Asylum Seekers, One Drumbeat at a Time.” Voice of San Diego. Nov 27, 2018. https://voiceofsandiego.org/2018/11/27/culture-report-bringing-music-and-dance-to-asylum-seekers-one-drumbeat-at-a-time/.
35. “Dance Concert Features Guest Choreographers.” The Observer-Dispatch. March 3, 2016.
36. “Hamilton College Staging Annual Spring Dance Concert.” The Oneida Daily Dispatch. March 3, 2016. https://www.oneidadispatch.com/2016/03/03/hamilton-college-staging-annual-spring-dance-concert-march-4-5/.

Publications

1. C. Oh, K-pop Dance Education (Routledge, forthcoming).
2. C. Oh, K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.
3. J. Lee, C. Oh, and YC Kim, eds. Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
4. Oh. C. “New Authenticities of Indonesian K-pop Dancers,” Dance Chronicle (forthcoming).
5. Oh, C. [Book Review] “David C. Oh, Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Differences in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State. Perspectives on Contemporary Korea. University of Michigan Press,” Pacific Affairs 97, no. 1 (2023): 186-189.
6. Oh. C. “Rocks Thrown at His Head,” Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies 42 (2023).
7. Oh, C. and David C. Oh. “White-Expat-Fans’ Performing K-pop Other on YouTube.” Text and Performance Quarterly (2022): 1-23.
8. Oh, C. [Book Review] “Kwon, J., Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies. University of Iowa Press,” Asian Communication Research 18, no. 3 (2021): 192-196.
9. Oh, C. “The (Im)possibility of Speaking Unspeakable Trauma in Dance Ethnography,” Text and Performance Quarterly 41, no. 3-4 (2021): 241-261.
10. A. Harlig, C. Abidin, T. Boffone, K. Bowker, C. Eloi, P. Krayenbuhl, C. Oh. “TikTok and Short-Form Screendance Before and After Covid.” The International Journal of Screendance 12 (2021): 190-209. 
11. Oh, C. “From Seoul to Copenhagen: Migrating K-pop Cover Dance and Performing Diasporic Youth on YouTube.” Dance Research Journal 52, no. 1 (2020): 20-32.
12. Oh, C. “Identity Passing in Intercultural Performance of K-pop Cover Dance.” Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (2020) 49, no. 5: 472-483.
13. Oh, C. “One Billion Rising Flashmob: From Unspoken Trauma to Danceable Pleasure.” Dance Chronicle 42, no. 3 (2019): 296-321.
14. Oh, C. “Racialized and Gendered Orientalism in Olympic Figure Skating.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 36, no. 7-8 (2019): 714-730.
15. Oh, C, and David C. Oh. “Unmasking Queerness: Blurring and Solidifying Queer Line through K-pop Cross-dressing.” The Journal of Popular Culture 50, no. 1 (2017): 9-29.
16. Oh, David C., and C. Oh. “Vlogging White Privilege Abroad: Eat Your Kimchi’s Eating and Spitting out of the Korean Other on YouTube.” Communication, Culture & Critique 10, no. 4 (2017): 696-711.
17. Oh, David C., and C. Oh. “‘Until You Are Able’: South Korean Multiculturalism and Hierarchy in the film My Little Hero.” Communication, Culture & Critique 9, no. 2 (2016): 250-265.
18. Oh, C. “Queering Spectatorship in K-pop: The Androgynous Male Dancing Body and Western Female Fandom.” The Journal of Fandom Studies 3, no. 1 (2015): 59-78.
19. Oh, C. “Performing Post-Racial Asianness: K-Pop’s Appropriation of Hip Hop Culture.” Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings. Cambridge University Press (2014): 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1017/cor.2014.17.
20. Oh, C. “Gender Images Shown in Dancing in TV Commercials.” The Korean Journal of Dance Documentation 19 (2010): 29-45. 21. Oh, C. “A Dance Criticism on White Room.” The Korean Journal for Dance Studies 22 (2007): 231-234.