Hye Jean Chung

Hye Jean Chung is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Global Communication at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program. Her research focuses on digital cinema, media technology, visual effects, and global film production pipelines, with a particular emphasis on transnational cinema, East Asian cinema, and documentary storytelling.

Chung has received grants from Kyung Hee University and the National Research Foundation of Korea. Her awards include the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Best Essay in an Edited Collection Award, Dissertation Award, and Student Writing Award. Her interdisciplinary work bridges digital aesthetics, posthuman bodies in cinema, and transmedia franchises. Key publications include her monograph Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production (Duke UP, 2018) and articles in Visual Studies, Cinema Journal, and Spectator.

Her recent research explores motifs of bodily violence and porous national borders in Korean cinema, as well as experimental documentary techniques and cosmopolitanism in global media.