Areum Jeong 정아름

Both my books are available for pre-order now! 📚🎗️💚 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/beyond... (All royalties will be donated to Sewol non-profits.) press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... (All royalties will be donated to non-profits focused on animal rights, environmental issues, or human rights.)

Centering questions of Indigeneity, disability, and the settler-diaspora, Jeong Eun Annabel We's "Decolonial Becoming" reimagines decolonization through a careful study of the conditions of occupation in South Korea from the 1930s to the present. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/fl9OGCL

Many thanks to Dr. Soo Ryon Yoon for taking the time to read my work and write such a generous and thoughtful review in The Journal of Asian Studies (doi.org/10.1215/0021...

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Taiwan Literary and Cultural Studies. Please feel free to share this job posting with anyone who may be interested. I am also happy to answer any questions about living and working here. Come work with me! apply.interfolio.com/194875

Yay I won a prize but THIS is the REAL news: "The Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a culture and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of Land" ... and I am translating Toji (all twenty volumes) into English!

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fashioning fan culture and identity with K-pop dolls through affective labour Areum Jeong In: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture #FanStudies doi.org/10.1386/fspc...

As the first anniversary of my Sewol book approaches, I was delighted and grateful to see such a generous and kind review published in Theatre Research International(doi.org/10.1080/0307...). Many thanks to Dr. Hayana Kim for taking the time to read and engage with my work!🎗️

260920 THE REDLINE 이렇게 또 당분간 살아갈 힘을 얻는다 #태용 #TAEYONG #NCT127      #NCT127_5TH_NEOCITY #NCT127_5TH_NEOCITY_THE_REDLINE

앞으로 수많은 수정을 거쳐야 하겠지만, 다음 책 초고 완성 🫠 이제 한숨 푹 자고 콘서트 가서 신나게 놀아야지 ✈️💚

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

Still quite some time left, but hope to see you at Harvard in February! 🙌🏻 korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/areum-...

So apparently the Library of Congress had a K-pop event yesterday and exhibited a collection of academic scholarship on K-pop! Many thanks to oomfs and readers who sent photos! 📚💚 몰랐는데 어제 미국 국회도서관에서 케이팝 행사를 했나보다. 행사에 다녀온 몇몇 독자와 툥프들로부터 메세지와 인증샷이 왔는데, 꿋꿋하게 자기 주장하는 네오 그린 표지가 사랑스럽다💚

Trying to organize my conference and talk dates as the new academic year looms ahead: Late Oct: CU Boulder Mid-Nov: ASTR (Minneapolis) Early Dec: UT Austin Late Feb: Harvard Mid-Mar: AAS (Boston) & more in discussion! If you would like to collab or invite me for a talk, please get in touch! 👩🏻‍💻

Many thanks to Dr. Ethan Segal and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) for inviting me to talk about K-pop to K-12 educators at the 2026 Summer Teaching about East Asia Seminar! 👩🏻‍💻🙏🏻 줌 특강 두 탕 뛴 하루.. 오늘도 밥값했다.. 🫠

초대해주신 김지훈 센터장님과 여름학교를 위해 애써주신 조교 선생님들께 다시 한 번 감사드리고, 특강 와주신 모든 분들께 진심으로 감사드립니다! 👩🏻‍💻🙏🏻

Submitted the last document for my tenure & promotion review... now I just have to wait till next May... 🫠

I finally have a very, very rough draft (so lots more writing ahead) of Chapters 1-4 of my next book manuscript, but I will put it away for a week so, then return to it with fresh eyes. Although it feels very skeletal now, I am very excited to develop it further. 👩🏻‍💻

NCT Taeyong #태용 📷 x/patronus0701

오랜만에 연꾸 🌹💚

I'm a dancing cactus yeah 🌵🎶

For the @nytimes.com, the biggest crises in higher ed are grade inflation at Ivy/Ivy-adjacent institutions & 'wokeness,' not the defunding of public higher ed, attacks on academic freedom which disproportionately impact public institutions, crumbling campus infrastructure, exploding student debt

몇 달 치 짐 다 정리하고 구석구석 청소하고 장 보고 나니 넘나 피곤하지만 집에 돌아온 거 실감남🌵 달력 보니 정확히 한 달 후에 엘에이 간다 남은 주말만 누워서 쉬고 내일부터 일 열시미 하기 🙌🏻

Excited that there are 4 performances on Jeju at Festival d'Avignon this year. Arthur Laffargue of Liberation, who read my Theatre Research International article, invited me to share my thoughts on Creative VaQi's Story of Island and the Jeju 4.3 Massacre. www.liberation.fr/culture/scen...

아 킹받게 공항에 뭐 저런 걸 만들어놨어 😂🤣 근데 굿즈와 책이 깔끔하게 정리된 내 집으로 돌아갈 생각을 하니 좋음 🌵🌴

🚨 Cool CPF alert! 🚨 MAKING AND ARCHIVING FEMINIST ZINES OTHERWISE A Symposium on Global Feminist Methods & Pedagogies Virtual event on 22-23 October 2026 knowledgesteez.com/call-for-pap...

Many thanks to Li Wei who wrote a generous review of my K-Pop Fandom book in The Journal of Popular Culture! 🫶🏻 doi.org/10.1111/jpcu...

Today is National Fried Chicken Day.

New book review in The Journal of Popular Culture ⬇️⬇️⬇️ K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu From the 1990s to Today. By Areum Jeong, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2026. 176 pp. $24.95 (paperback). Li Wei #FanStudies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

어제 부천에서 보고 왔는데, 장면 장면 계속 떠오르고 곱씹는 중 🥹 간만에 봤는데 또 보고 싶은 영화가 생김 🎬 나중에 개봉하면 꼭 보러가세요!🎖️

NCT Taeyong #태용 📷¹ x/ffloweroad 📷² x/m4rklvsc

In the first half of 2026, I reviewed three book manuscripts, two grant proposals, and two journal articles. I was asked to review more but had to decline to protect my health and time. I wonder, am I doing enough to serve our community? And are other folks pulling their weight as well?

2026 여름

Paper Performance by Ju Yon Kim brings together studies of paperwork and performance to demonstrate their continued, intertwined impact on Asian American history and culture. https://ow.ly/QK6G50Zit9G

오랜만에 읽을거리 📚 광장 비판: 민주주의에 대해 우리가 말하지 않는 것 / 조형근, 천정환, 연혜원, 안희제, 홍명교, 정고은 펑펑: 나를 울리고 너를 배반하며 이룩되는 케이팝 이야기 / 복길 The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir / Karen Cheung

NCT Taeyong #태용