Jungmin Kwon / Portland State University

Jungmin Kwon is an associate professor of digital culture and film studies in the School of Film at Portland State University. She has been recognized as a 2022-2023 NextGen Scholar, selected by the CSIS Korea Chair and the University of Southern University Korean Studies Institute, with support from the Korea Foundation. Her research and teaching interests encompass digital culture, film and media, gender and sexuality, the media industry, fans and audiences, media celebrities, and Korean/East Asian popular culture. She is the author of Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies (2019, University of Iowa Press). Her work has been published in academic journals, including Journal of Popular Culture, Television & New Media, International Journal of Communication, and Journal of Fandom Studies. Currently, she is writing her second book, titled In Between (In)Visibility: Queer Media Cultures in Contemporary South Korea, funded by the Academy of Korean Studies and Portland State University.