Ph.D. in Art, Art History & Visual Studies with certificates in Feminist Studies, East Asian Studies, Information Science, and College Teaching, Duke University, 2024
M.A. in Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, 2021
M.A. in Art History, University of Toronto, 2018
B.A. in Fine Arts (Art History), University of Hong Kong, 2017

Specialties: Modern and Contemporary Korea, Imperialism of Japan and the United States, Transnational Feminism, Films and Popular Culture, History and Theory of Photography, Trauma, Memory and Affect Theory

Dr. Park teaches courses in East Asian and World History of art and visual culture, as well as thematic courses covering gender, politics, and the environment. Her research, through theoretical, interdisciplinary, and visual analyses, examines the politics of representation and violence under Japanese and United States military imperialisms in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific regions from the mid-19th century to the present. Her article, “Performing Recalcitrance: Film The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019) beyond social death of sexual violence in the United States military camp-town, South Korea” has been published in Mortality. Her articles are forthcoming in Art Inquiries, Journal of Gender Studies, and Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry. She has chapters forthcoming in the edited volumes Adaptation of/ and/ to Environment: Ecologies of Art, Recording, and Containment (Vernon Press), and Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and Gender-Based Violence (Routledge). Dr. Park is working on her first book, Imaging Comfort Women, which chronicles the ten-year expansion of the “comfort women” memorial called the Statue of Peace (2011) in South Korea. Her second book will explore gendered practices and militarized culture of ocean diving in East and Southeast Asia. She is a member of the Committee on Diversity Practices at the College Art Association and a jury member for the Equity Diversity Inclusion Award at SECAC. Her research has been funded by the Bassi Foundation and von der Heyden Global Fellowship. She received and declined the Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency Fellowship, as well as postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Toronto, Tulane University, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Duke University.