Hyaeweol Choi, BA (Yonsei), MA (Yonsei), PhD (SUNY-Buffalo)
ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies
Director, ANU Korea Institute
School of Culture, History and Language
Email: Hyaeweol.Choi@anu.edu.au
Research interests
My research interests are gender, culture, religion and diaspora. My latest book, entitled Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (University of California Press, 2009), examines the genealogies of the "modern" woman among American Protestant missionaries and Korean intellectuals within the context of Korea's colonization by Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. I am completing translations into English of some key archival material concerning the "New Woman" in Korea from the 1920s and 1930s. A new book project, funded by a Fulbright fellowship, will reexamine the modern history of women in Korea from a transnational perspective by focusing on the dynamic flow of ideas, discourses and people across national boundaries that have triggered new gender images and practices.
Key publications
- Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009)
- "'Wise Mother, Good Wife': A Trans-cultural Discursive Construct in Modern Korea," Journal of Korean Studies 14, no. 1 (Fall 2009): 1-34
- "A New Moral Order: Gender Equality in Korean Christianity," in Religions of Korea in Practice, ed. Robert Buswell (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. 409-420
- "Christian Modernity in Missionary Discourse from Korea, 1905-1910," East Asian History 29 (June 2005): 39-68
- "Emancipation or Oppression in Diaspora?: Korean Women Academics and the Diasporic Experience," in Asian Women: Interconnections, eds., Tineke Hellwig and Sunera Thobani (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press/Women's Press, 2005), pp. 67-91
- "An American Concubine in Old Korea: Missionary Discourse on Gender, Race, and Modernity," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25.3 (2004): 134-161
- "Missionary Zeal in a Transformed Melodrama: Gendered Evangelicalism in Korea," The Asian Journal of Women's Studies 7.1 (2001): 7-39
- "Women's Work for "Heathen Sisters": American Women Missionaries and their Educational Work in Korea," Acta Koreana 2 (July 1999): 1-22
- An International Scientific Community: Asian Scholars in the United States (New York: Praeger, 1995)
- Philip G. Altbach and Hyaeweol Choi, Bibliography on Publishing and Book Development in the Third World, 1980-1993 (Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1993)
Career highlights
Korea Book Review Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2009 – 2010); President, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (2008-2009); Associate Editor, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (2008 – 2009); Elected Member, Northeast Asia Council (NEAC), Association for Asian Studies (2008 – 2011); Editorial Board, Korea Journal (2007 – present); Editorial Board, Chonggyo munhwa yon'gu (Research on Religious Culture) (2008 – present); Elected Member, Executive Committee on Korean Studies, Association for Asian Studies (March 2004-March 2007); Elected Member, Council of Conferences, Association for Asian Studies (March 2004-March 2007)
