Yoon Jeong Oh

Yoon Jeong Oh

Yoon Jeong Oh is an Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. She is currently completing her book manuscript, Translingual Interventions: The Melancholic Other of Japanese Colonialism, Postcolonial Korea, and Transpacific Cosmopolitanism, which engages with translation theories, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies to investigate the notion of singularity in translingual and transmedial practices of diasporic writers. Her research interests also include urban aesthetics and the links between text, media, and culture.

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 5

Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film

Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun's critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.