Contributors
Seoyeon Lee is a Ph.D. student in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She researches science fiction literature in Korea, mainland China, and Sinophone worlds including Taiwan and Hong Kong through the lenses of feminist, gender, and postcolonial studies. She is particularly interested in contemporary Chinese/Sinophone and Korean feminist science fiction. Her current research centers on the trope of cyborgs and alien beings along with the representation of gendered and queer bodies. She has previously written an article titled “Science Fiction Representations of Cyborgs in Kim Ch’oyŏp’s ‘My Space Heroine.’” She has also participated as a discussant in the Kaya Press event, “Reimagining the Universe: South Korean Science Fiction Writers in Conversation” with two Korean science fiction female authors, Bo-Young Kim and Bora Chung.
Sang Joon Park is an editor, translator, publisher, and columnist on all subjects related to science fiction. He teaches at Kaywon University of Art and Design and also regularly serves on the committees of SF awards and festivals. His Korean-language publications include Report by an Alien from the Future (Mirae esŏ on oegyein pogosŏ, 2020) and the co-authored volume A Chronicle of SF Masters and Masterpieces (SF kŏjang kwa kŏlchak ŭi yŏndaegi, 2019). He is also the co-editor of Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction (Kaya Press, 2019), the founder of the Seoul Science Fiction Archive, and the inaugural president of the Korean Science Fiction Association (KSFA).
Sunyoung Park is associate professor in the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015) and the editor of Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea (University of Michigan Press, 2019). In synergy with her research, Park is also active as an editor and translator of Korean fiction into English, which has resulted, among others, in the publication of three collections of short stories: On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea (Cornell East Asian Series, 2010); Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of Science Fiction from South Korea (Kaya Press, 2019); and On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim (Kaya Press, 2021). She is currently writing a monograph on science fiction and the politics of modernization in South Korea.
Tee Jaehyung Park is a student in the Writing for Screen and Television Program of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She researches on queer and transgender representations in the media.