Participating Professors
- KANG Yoonhee
- KANG Jeong Won
- KWEON Sug-In
- KIM Jaesok
- PARK Hanson
- LEE Seung Cheol
- LEE Hyeon Jung
- JUNG Hyang Jin
- CHAE Suhong
- HWANG Ikjoo
- Olga FEDORENKO
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- Professor Olga FEDORENKO
- An interdisciplinary scholar trained in socio-cultural anthropology and East Asian Studies, Professor Fedorenko works on media and its connection to social and political life in contemporary South Korea. Her engagement with these issues began as she critically analyzed South Korean advertising as a social institution, and it continues into her two new projects, one on materiality of South Korean paper-based media in the digital age, and the second on the Creative Commons movement in Seoul. Her research and teaching draw on perspectives from socio-cultural anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, and critical area studies.
- Education & Positions
2018 - Present Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Department of Anthropology
2015 - 2018 Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, Department of Anthropology
2012 - 2015 New York University, Department of East Asian Studies, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
2009 - 2010 Hanyang University, Graduate School for International Studies, Visiting Scholar
2006 - 2012 University of Toronto, East Asian Studies, PhD
2004 - 2005 M.A. University of Toronto, Asia-Pacific Studies and East Asian Studies
1999 - 2001 M.B.A. Yonsei University
1994 - 1998 B.A. Institute of Asian & African Studies at Moscow State University, Korean Studies- Office Address
- Room 404, Bldg. 16 (College of Social Sciences)
- Office Tel. / E-mail
- +82-2-880-6425 / fed0renk0@snu.ac.kr
- Courses Taught
- Graduate: Studies in Korean Culture; Anthropology of Mediation; Writing in Anthropology in Asia; Visuality and Visual Culture
Undergraduate: Globalizing Korea; South Korean Popular Culture; Anthropology of Media; Anthropology of the Internet - Research Interests
- Expertise: Anthropology of Media, Korean Studies, East Asian Studies Geographical Areas of Specialization: South KoreaTopical Interests: Media and Society, Advertising, Popular Culture, New Media
- Publications
[Journal articles]
2018 Guest Editor’s Note: The Insidersand Outsiders of Korean Culture. Acta Koreana21 (2): vii–xvi.
2017 The Sharing City Seoul: GlobalImaginaries of the Sharing Economy and its Local Realities. Development and Society 46 (2): 373-397.
2017 Korean-Wave Celebritiesbetween Global Capital and Regional Nationalisms. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 18 (4): 498–517.
2016 Quandaries of Advertising Censorship in South Korea: Freedom-Loving Censors, Smart Consumers, and Cynical Sensibility. Anthropological Quarterly 89(4): 1049–79.
2015 Politics of Sex Appeal in advertising: Female Creatives and Post-Feminist Sensibility in South Korea. Feminist Media Studies 15(3): 474-491.
2008 Celebrity Worship and Celebrity Scorn in Contemporary South Korea: Analyzing Public Critiques of Celebrity Endorsers of Non-bank Loans. East Asia Forum 11: 82-116.
[Book Chapters]
2017 On the Futility of Advertising Critique: Searching for Alternatives. In James Frederick Hamilton, Robert Bodle, and Ezequiel Korin, eds. Explorations in Critical Studies of Advertising. New York: Routledge.
2014 South Korean Advertising as Popular Culture, In Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, eds. The Korean Popular Culture Reader. Durham: Duke University Press.
Journal Issue Edited
Guest editor, “The Insiders and Outsiders of Korean Culture.”Acta Koreana 21, no. 2 (December 2018)- Recent Research Projects
- Paper-based Media in Contemporary South KoreaThe Sharing Economy and Its Imaginaries in South Korea