Dr Jane Park

Dr. Jane Chi Hyun Park has a Ph.D. in Radio-TV-Film from The University of Texas at Austin and a M.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine and previously worked in American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is affiliated with the U.S. Studies Centre and the Asian Studies program and teaches in both as well as in Gender and Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on representations of race, gender and sexuality, especially of Asian peoples and communities in popular media, including film, television and music. She has published articles in Global Media Journal and World Literature Today and book chapters in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren and Mixed Race in Film and Television edited by Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas. Her first book, Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, examines the ideological role of Asiatic imagery in US films from the 1980s to the present and will be published with the University of Minnesota Press in 2010.

Research and teaching interests: film and media studies, Asian and Asian diasporic studies, American Studies, Australian Studies, Korean studies, comparative race and ethnic studies.

Publications

Book manuscripts

Park, Jane. Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, in-press, forthcoming 2010.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Park, Jane. "Remaking the Korean RomCom: A Case Study of Yeopgijeongin geunyeo and My Sassy Girl." In Black, Daniel, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita, eds. Complicated Currents: Media Flows and Soft Power in East Asia. Melbourne: Monash University E-Press, forthcoming November 2009.

Park, Jane. “Stylistic Crossings: Cyberpunk Impulses in Anime.” World Literature Today 79, nos. 3-4 (2005): 60-63.

Park, Jane and Karin Wilkins. “Re-orienting the Oriental Gaze.” Global Media Journal, Spring 2005.

Book chapters

Park, Jane. “Virtual Race: The Racially Ambiguous Action Hero in The Matrix and Pitch Black.” Beltrán, Mary and Camilla Fojas, eds. Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2008. 182-202.

Park, Jane. “Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop.” Davé, Shilpa, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren, eds. East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2005. 292-312.

Beltrán, Mary, Jane Park, Henry Puente, Sharon Ross, and John Downing. “Pressurizing the Media Industry.” Downing, John and Charles Husband, Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media. London: Sage Publications, 2005. 160-193.

Journalistic writing:

Park, Jane. "Margaret Cho’s Televisual Trajectory: From All-American Girl to The Cho Show". FLOWTV. Released April 30, 2009.

Park, Jane. "Orientalized Masculinities in Contemporary Australian Cinema". FLOWTV. Released March 8, 2009.

Park, Jane. "(Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s ‘Black Friday.’" In Media Res. Released April 29, 2008.

Park, Jane. "But Does He Know How to Wind You Up?: Gwen Stefani Samples The Sound of Music." Released February 19, 2007.

Creative writing:

“Tribute.” The Massachusetts Review, fall 2004. 258-259.

“Amnesia,”“Education,” “Anime Wong,” and “Plane Trips.” Olomo, Omi Osun/Joni L. Jones and Lisa L. Moore, eds. The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic. Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, forthcoming, 2009.

Selected Invited Presentations

"Hollywood Does Korean Love: Re-presenting Gender, Sexuality and Romance in The Lake House and My Sassy Girl." ANU Centre for Korean Studies, The Australian National University, September 18, 2009

Workshop facilitator, "Transnational Queer Asian Masculinities". Glocalising Gender and Sex: Consumption, Culture, Practice, University of Sydney, Feb. 27, 2009

“Oriental Style: Representations of the Asiatic in Hollywood Action Genre Films”
Global Media Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbonale, IL, Sept. 20, 2007

Participant, “Power, Production, Participation,” an online panel on video game literacies,
MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Digital Media and Learning, Oct. 18, 2006

“Stylistic Crossings: Visions of the Techno-oriental Future in Anime and US Cyberpunk Cinema”. Traffic and Diaspora: Political, Economic, and Cultural Exchanges between Japan and Asian America, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Feb. 25, 2005