Dr Haekyung Um PhD, MA, BA

I specialise in contemporary Asian performing arts with an emphasis on the politics of performance, cultural identity and policy, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. I have published one monograph, Korean Musical Drama: P’ansori: The Making of Tradition in Modernity (Ashgate, 2013) and two edited volumes, Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005) and Rediscovering Traditional Korean Performing Arts (KAMS, 2012). I also published on Korean hip-hop, South Asian music in Britain and Chinese Korean dance drama. I have directed a collaborative research project on K-pop fandom and reception in Europe and am currently preparing a book entitled Asian Pop Music in Cosmopolitan Europe: K-pop Fandom in the Age of Globalisation (Routledge). My new research project looks at the ways in which Korean TV music reality programmes contribute to the canonisation of Korean popular music and the creation of popular music heritage through performance, mediation and mediatisation.