Professor
Jungmin Kwon, Ph.D., is a professor of digital culture and film studies in the School of Film at Portland State. She studies and teaches digital culture, film and media, the media industry, audiences and fans, media celebrity and Korean/East Asian popular culture from feminist and queer perspectives.
Kwon is the author of Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies (2019, University of Iowa Press). Currently, Kwon is writing her second book, titled In Between (In)Visibility: Queer Media Cultures in Contemporary South Korea.
Her work has been published in academic journals, including the Journal of Popular Culture, Television & New Media, International Journal of Communication, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Women’s Studies in Communication, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, Korean Journal of Communication and Journal of Fandom Studies.