Soo Hee Kang (she/her)

Soo Hee Kang is a Ph.D. student in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington. Her research interests include queer Asian popular culture in the global context and issues of power and surveillance regarding digital interfaces. Her Master’s thesis deconstructed the values behind the prefix ‘K’ that brands Korean popular media and investigated the relationships that are formed between the ‘K’ and certain Korean queer media texts. She is currently working on a project that draws upon Yeo-Baek, a mode of Korean aesthetics, to make sense of absences in the queer and lesbian archives.

Soo Hee has served as a submissions reader for The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television and a senior editor for Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture. She is also a filmmaker who likes to blur and question the line between fact and fiction. Her films can be found on her vimeo page (https://vimeo.com/user185510814).         

Book Reviews
Kang, Soo Hee. “Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, edited by Jamie J. Zhao.” The Velvet Light Trap no. 95 (2025). 

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/960170

Online Publications (non-reviewed)
Kang, Soo Hee. “Who Severed the Tiger’s Spine? Traumas of Occupation and Partition in Exhuma.” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 30, no. 8. Published August 15, 2024. 

https://www.flowjournal.org/2024/08/who-severed-tigers-spine/