Hyon Joo Yoo

BIO

Professor Yoo’s research stems from her belief that it is only by questioning the way we exist in the world that we may create a life worth living for ourselves our society. Engaging in this remaking of the human condition is, in Professor Yoo’s worldview, an exciting theoretical and creative process for teacher and student alike. Her research in psychanalysis is a means to formulate the essential questions regarding human subjects and the condition of their existence. This research informs her writing on film. She examines how film, as a medium of expression, articulates questions regarding humanity in global contexts. This theoretical research, in exploring the historical, social, and cultural contexts involved in global cinema, expands the overall scope of film analysis. She is noted for her expertise on Lacanian psychanalysis, as well as South Korean cinema. In her teaching she seeks to inspire students to see themselves as participating in world history as creators and thinkers.

Courses

• Development of Motion Picture to 1930
• Development of Motion Picture 1930-1960
• Development of Motion Pictures 1960-2000
• Zombis, Monsters, Freaks
• Film, Culture, Society
• Vermont International Film Festival
• Film Theory
• Genre and Auteur: Gender and Sexuality
• Gender, Sexuality and Film
• Nation, Cinema, and Capitalism
• South Korean Cinema
• South Korea: K-Culture, K-Cinema
• East Asian Cinema
• Transnational Genres and Filmmakers
• Transnational Auteurs
• Love and Death in Cinema
• Unmaking Totalitarianism and Universal Emancipation
• Cinema of Failure
• The Terror and Pleasure of Modernity
• Transnational Auteurs: Cosmopolitanism, Universalism
• International Filmmakers
• Transnational Women Filmmakers
• Comedy
• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Graduate Seminar)

Publications

Hyon Joo Yoo Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

• Spring 2017 Peter Seybolt Faculty Fund (Asian Studies)
• 2014 Lattie F. Coor Faculty Awards in Humanities; Faculty Development Grant (English Department)
• Fall 2011 Faculty Development Fund (Asian Studies Program)
• Fall 2010 Lattie F. Coor Faculty Awards in Humanities; Faculty Development Grant (Asian Studies Program & English Department)
• Fall 2009 Faculty Development Grant (English & Asian Studies)
• Fall 2008 Faculty Development Grant (English)
• Fall 2007 Faculty Development Grant (English)

Area(s) of expertise

Film and Media Theory, Psychoanalysis, Global Cinema, South Korean Cinema, Gender Studies, Asian Studies, Critical Theory