Dohyun Gracia Shin
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Dohyun Gracia Shin's research investigates how portrayals of erotic and grotesque bodies in post-WWII Japanese and Korean theatre responded to each nation's image of the ideal body. Instead of uncovering the historical legacy of the early 20th-century cultural trend Ero Guro Nansensu during these postwar periods, she aims to adopt ero guro as a theoretical framework and posits the concept of performing ero guro to explore how theatre artists invite erotic and grotesque bodies in postwar theatrical performances to navigate their positions, interests, fears, concerns, and identities within the dominant systems of power to which they belong.
She holds a BA and an MA from Sogang University in English Literature as an albatross fellow. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in theatre and performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Research Interests:
eroticism and the grotesque, (American) Gothic theatre, 20th and 21st century Korean and Japanese theatre, Musical theatre, pop and subculture studies, theatre as a memory archive, new materialism and posthumanism
Peer-reviewed Articles:
- "The Horror of the Antebellum South Haunting on Stage: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate as a Gothic Memory Archive"
- Modern Drama 67, no.3 (Accepted and to be published)
- "Haunting Ghosts and Intergenerational Care as Remediation in Haruna Lee's Suicide Forest"
- Journal of Modern English Drama 36, no. 2.
- http://journal.kci.go.kr/medak/archive/articleView?artiId=ART002989530
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- https://muse.jhu.edu/article/879508/pdf
- "Yohangza Company's The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
- Shakespeare Review 58, no. 3. (2022)
- https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11157093
- "Contemporary Women Stage Directors: Conversations on Craft by Paulette Marty"
- 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
- “Après-girl.”
- The 25th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival
- 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)
- 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:
- City College of New York: Theatre and Speech (2020-2023)
- 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 (2022)
- ENG130: Writing about Literature, Fall 2022
- FY110: College Writing I, Fall 2022
email: dshin@gradcenter.cuny.edu