Hyaesin Yoon

Hyaesin Yoon

Assistant Professor Department of Gender Studies, Central European Univeristy Quellenstraße 51, 1100 Vienna, Austria E-mail: YoonH@ceu.edu

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University of California, Berkeley

PhD Rhetoric with Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2014

The Biopolitics of Memory in Transnational Circuits Seoul National University

MA Gender Studies, 2006

The Discursive Construction of Fallen Giseng in Japanese-Occupied Korea

BA Communication, 2000

Employment and Academic Positions

2015-present Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Central European University (CEU), Budapest and Vienna

Other Academic Positions

2018-2020 Director of Doctoral Studies, Department of Gender Studies, CEU

2018 Spring Visiting Scholar, Center for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge

2017 Fall Visiting Scholar, ReproSoc Research Group, University of Cambridge

2014-2015 Visiting Scholar, Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley Non-academic Employment

2000-2005 Journalist, Joongang Daily News, Seoul

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 Transnational Biopolitics

 Feminist and Queer Theories

 Postcolonialist and Decolonialist Criticisms

 Posthumanisms and Environmental Humanities

 Feminist Science, Technology, and Medicine

 Critical Disability Studies and Crip Theories

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 Performance, Research, and the Politics

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 “The Biopolitics of Languaging in the Cybernetic Fold: A Decolonial and Queer Ear to the Cosmo-poetics,” the Journal of Gender Studies 29.1 (2020)

 “Feral Biopolitics: Animal Bodies and/as Border Technologies,”

Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies, special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 22.2 (2017)

 “Disappearing Bitches: Canine Affect and Postcolonial Bioethics,”

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology 24. 3 (2016)

 Book Review, “Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 9.1 (2015)

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 Prosthetic Memories, book manuscript under review

 “Warm Robots for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder? The Thermodynamics of Sociality, Humanity, and Techno-society in South Korea,” journal article under revision for resubmission.

 “The Erotics of Singularity and the Biopolitics of Intimacy,” a special issue of Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies, revised and resubmitted.

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CEU, the Department of Gender Studies

 Gender, Sexuality, and the Non/Human

 Feminist Biopolitics and Cultural Practice

 Performing Arts, Research, and the Public

 Foundations in Gender Studies II

 Experience in MA and PhD supervisions

 Experience in organizing and examining at PhD dissertation defenses UC Berkeley, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

 TA, Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies, Fall 2013 UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric

 TA, Rhetorical Interpretation

 Co-Instructor, Performing Research

 Co-Instructor, Rhetoric and Crisis

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 TA, Image, Space, Text

 TA, Changes of Mind

 TA, “I See Dead People”

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INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 “‘Warm Robots’ for Autistic Children?,” invited to present at the Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Edinburgh (March 2021)

 “Speciating Humans: the becoming-geography of history in Sylvia Wynter’s Homo Narrans,” presented at the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Athens (2019)

 “Margaret Rhee’s Poetry Machine: The Technology of Difference, Love,”

presented at the 6th Yun Bosun Memorial Symposium, hosted by Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh (2018)

 “When all the traffic lights turn red: the color of robot-love-poetry,”

presented at the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Copenhagen (2018)

 “The Remnants of the Biotech Boom: Non-human Animals as Surplus Bodies in the Transnational Cloning Industry,” presented at the

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC (2018)

 “The Erotics of Singularity,” presented at Power and the Chthulucene symposium, Uppsala University, Sweden (2017)

 “Feral Affect: Animal Bodies and/as Border Technologies,” delivered at TEMA GENUS Higher Seminar Series at Linkoping University, Sweden (2016)

 “Feral Bodies and In/Secure Borders: Monkeys, Terrorists, and Ebola,”

presented at Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual conference, Dallas (2014)

 “The Biopolitics of Memory in Transnational Pet Cloning,” presented at Society for Literature Science and the Arts annual conference,

University of Notre Dame (2013)

 “In Loving Memory: Rendering Clones, Wombs, and Meat in Commercial Pet Cloning,” Presented at Funny Kinds of Love: The Ethics and Affects of Human-Animal Relationships, Center for Science, Technology, Media

& Society, University of California, Berkeley (2013) INVOLVED PROJECTS, INITIATIVES, AND OTHER EVENTS

 Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at CEU, Founding member

 Grace (Gender and Cultures of Equality), EU Innovative Training Network Project, Supervision team (2016-2019)

 Organization of guest lectures: several Gender Studies Guest Lecturer series -- invited lecturers includes Wu Tsang, Jack Halberstam, Eva

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Hyaesin Yoon Haywrd, and Nina Lykke, as well as Sara Ahmed who was co-hosted by the CEU Rector’s Office.

Grants and Awards

 Teaching Development Project Grant (2018, CEU)

 Distinguished Teaching Award (2019, CEU)

Memberships

The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts National Women’s Studies Association

Association for Asian Studies

Languages Other than English

Japanese, French, and German: elementary level in speaking, reading, writing

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