Jooyeon Rhee – Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

jxr5820@psu.edu // Jooyeon’s Page

Research Interests

• Modern Korean Literature and Film
• Gender Studies
• Diaspora Studies
• Food Studies

Soo-yong Byun – Professor of Education, Demography, and Asian Studies at Penn State University Park; Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University

szb14@psu.edu // Soo-yong’s Webiste

Research Interests

• Korean Education
• Comparative and International Education
• Sociology of Education 
• Social Stratification
• Educational (in)Equality
• Educational Policy Analysis

Hyun Soon (Julie) Cho-Min – Assistant Teaching Professor of Asian Studies 

hyunmin@psu.edu // Julie’s Page

Research Interests

• Comparative Corpus Analysis
• Discourse Analysis
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Inkyu Kang – Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Behrend

iuk14@psu.edu // Inkyu’s Page

Research Interests

• Global Media
• Visual Communications
• Cultural Studies
• New Media Technology

Hyeseon Kim – Community Outreach Coordinator

hzk6@psu.edu // Hyeseon’s Page

Research Interests

• Korean History
• Diaspora Studies
• Buddhism and Meditation
• Content-Based Language Learning

Lan Kim – Coordinator of the Korean Language Program and Associate Teaching Professor of Korean and Asian Studies

luk18@psu.edu // Lan’s Page

Research Interests

• Korean Linguistics (Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Analysis)
• Language Acquisition
• Korean Teaching Pedagogy

Ok-sim Kim – Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean

Research Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Pragmatics
• Comparative Studies in Korean and Japanese

Joungmok Lee – Lecturer in Korean

Research Interests

• Korean Linguistics
• Grammaticalization
• Pedagogy

Na-Young Ryu – Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean

nayoung.ryu@psu.edu // Na-Young’s Website

Research Interests

• Korean Linguistics
• Phonology
• Second Language Acquisition
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Jayoung Song – Assistant Professor of Korean and Asian Studies

jayoung.song@psu.edu // Jayoung’s Website

Research Interests

• Korean Applied Linguistics
• Intercultural Communication
• Technology Enhanced Language Learning

Susan Strauss – Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies, with courtesy appointments in Education and Linguistics

sgs9@psu.edu // Susan’s Page

Research Interests

• Media Discourse and Analysis
• Cognitive Motivations of Lexical and Grammatical Choice
• Language Pedagogy