About

Ji-Yeon O. Jo is Director of the Carolina Asia Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at UNC–Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the post/Cold War experiences of the Korean diasporas as minorities in diaspora and South Korea.
Her first monograph, Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017) addresses various issues of contemporary migration and highlights their affective dimensions. Her second monograph, tentatively titled, Unsettling: Korean Diaspora Cinema and the Circulation of Affect, investigate aspects of affect and spatiality in the films directed by Korean diaspora filmmakers.