Dohyun Gracia Shin
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공연예술에서 에로틱하고 그로테스크하게 표현되는 다양한 몸들을 연구하고 있다. 특히, 동시대 공연예술이 소외된 몸에 의한, 몸을 위한 연대와 돌봄의 장이 될 수 있는지 관심을 두고 있다. 현재는 서강대학교 영문학부에서 학생들을 가르치고 있으며, 극단 성북동비둘기의 단원으로 활동하고 있다.
Dohyun Gracia Shin is a scholar and lecturer based in Seoul, Korea. Her research explores the embodiment of eroticism and the grotesque in theatre and performance, examining how artists perform these elements to usurp, challenge, and reject idealized bodily images. She asks: How does a performance become an ephemeral archive of memories, where artists navigate their corporeality, affects, and identities within dominant systems of power? How can such archival attempts create spaces of care, both within and beyond theatre?
Dohyun is particularly interested in exploring the complexity of erotic and grotesque bodily representations, tracing their transnational journeys with a focus on contemporary American, Korean, and Japanese theatre. Since 2025, she has been a resident dramaturg of the Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre Company, based in Seoul.
Research/Teaching Interests:
Korean/Japanese American theatre, American avant-garde theatre, American/Korean LGBTQ+ theatre, American/Korean musical theatre, Japanese angura (underground) theatre, Japanese subculture studies
Degrees:
- Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance (2024)
- The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Dissertation: "Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre" (https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5849/)
- Advisor: Dr. Peter Eckersall
- M.A. in English (2019)
- Sogang University, Korea
- Thesis: "Becoming the Dominatrix in David Ives's Venus in Fur and Monika Treut's Seduction: The Cruel Woman
- Advisor: Dr. Tai-Won Kim
- B.A. in English and Japanese Culture (2017)
- Sogang University, Korea
- Summa cum laude
Peer-reviewed Articles:
- "Reframing Failure through an Asian American body in Aya Ogawa's The Nosebleed"
- The Journal of American Studies 57, no. 1. (2025.05 예정)
- "Reimagining the Order of the Giants on Stage: Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre's Gulliverse 2"
- The Journal of Eighteenth-Century English Literature 22, no. 1. (2025.05 예정)
- "Dramaturgy Across Borders: Multimedia/Transnational Medea(s) of La MaMa ETC"
- Journal of Modern English Drama 37, no. 3. (2024.12)
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE12050640
- "The Haunting of the Antebellum South: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate as a Gothic Memory Archive"
- Modern Drama 67, no.3. (2024.09)
- https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/md-67-3-1325
- "Everyday People's Reparative Guilt and Revolutionary Rehearsals in Taylor Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus"
- Shakespeare Review 60, no. 2. (2024.06)
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11859630
- "Haunting Ghosts and Intergenerational Care as Remediation in Haruna Lee's Suicide Forest"
- Journal of Modern English Drama 36, no. 2. (2023.08)
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11520064
Performance and Book Reviews:
- "Reviving a Canon with Contradictory Visions of Race and Gender: Othello at the Seoul Arts Center"
- Shakespeare Review 59, no.2 (2023.06)
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11446584
- "Exploring the Liminal Space of Inter-Rituals by Three Chinese Female Artists"
- The Center for Humanities, GC CUNY; Distributaries (co-written with Hui Peng, edited by Jin Wang) (2023.05)
- https://centerforthehumanities.org/distributaries/exploring-the-liminal-space-of-inter-rituals-by-three-chinese-female-artists
- "The Barrington Stage Company and Ma-Yi Theater Company's Chinese Lady"
- Theatre Journal 74, no. 4. (2022.12)
- https://muse.jhu.edu/article/879508/pdf
- "Yohangza Company's The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
- Shakespeare Review 58, no. 3. (2022.10)
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11157093
- "2020 Online Pride Parade in South Korea"
- Platform 16, no.1 (2022.05)
- https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/20087/1-full%20issue.pdf.pdf
- The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 33, no. 1. (2020)
- jadtjournal.org/2021/01/12/contemporary-women-stage-directors
- "Events from the Arab/Islamic World at the 2019 PRELUDE Festival, New York"
- Arab Stages 11. (co-written with Jacquelyn Marie Shannon) (2019)
- https://arabstages.org/2019/11/events-from-the-arab-islamic-world-at-the-2019-prelude-festival-new-york/
- "Seoul Performing Arts Company's Good-bye Yi Sang"
- Sogang University Graduate School Newspaper, 12.04.2017 (no. 143)
Public-facing Publications:
- "'거인의 질서'를 바라보며"
- "연극에 대해 쓴다는 것은."
- “Après-girl.”
- The 25th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (2024)
- https://siwff.or.kr/kor/addon/00000001/program_view.asp?m_idx=103746&QueryYear=2023&c_idx=380&QueryType=B&QueryStep=2
- “A Conversation on the Netflix Series The Chair.”
- 2ROOMMAGAZINE 10 (co-interviewed with Eun (Sam) Shim and Bomi So, edited by Yujin Cha) (2021)
- Theatre Interview: "From Dong-ju, To Dong-ju"
- Seoul Performing Arts Company, a programme of the musical Shooting at the Moon, Yun Dong-ju (2017)
Courses:
- Sogang University: British & American Language and Literature (Seoul; 2024-Current)
- ENG5005: Pro-seminar: 20th Century British Literature (Spring 2025)
- ENG3406: Life Writing (Fall 2024)
- ENG2101: Writing about English Literature (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
- ENG2006: Understanding Drama (Spring 2025)
- THTR21300: Theatre History III, Spring 2023
- FIQWS 10013: A Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar (Topic: American Musical Theatre), Fall 2022
- THTR21100: Theatre History I, Fall 2021
- THTR13100: Introduction to Theatre Arts, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022 (HNRS)
- Queens College: English (NY; 2022)
- ENG130: Writing about Literature, Fall 2022
- FY110: College Writing I, Fall 2022
Performances:
- Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre (극단 성북동비둘기)
- Horror Is Show (2025; dramaturg)
- Gulliverse 2 (2025; dramaturg)
email: dhshin@sogang.ac.kr