• Research interests

Microhistory, Commodity History, Technological Culture, Science Fiction and Critical Theories

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• Educational Background

From - To	Department, Institution, Supervisor	Thesis Title	Degrees/remarks
01/10/2013 - present	History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung LEE	Coffee Service: How It Has Changed Women’s Lives in Korea (in preperation)	PhD Candidate (Korean Studies)
01/10/2001 - 07/07/2009	Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, Dr. Shohini CHAUDHURI	Disaster and Perversion in Techno-Capitalist Societies: Reading J.G. Ballard´s Fiction from a Deleuzian Perspective	PhD in Literature  (Postmodernism)
01/10/2000 - 18/04/2002	Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, Dr. Shohini CHAUDHURI	A Study of New Society and New Human Beings in the Technological Age: The Influence of Technology in J.G. Ballard´s Fictional Works	MA in Literature (Modernity Present and Future)
03/03/1997 - 22/02/2000	English Language and Literature, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea		BA in Literature (Graduated two semesters earlier)

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• Professional Background

Academic Career

From - To	Position	Institution, city, country
01/10/2014 - 31/03/2015	Part-time Instructor	History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Teaching "Introduction to Modern Korean Culture" to undergraduate students
01/01/2014 - present	Project Coordinator	History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Project: "Circulation of Knowledge and Dynamics of Transformation", Researched on Knowledge Transfer, Organised conferences and workshops, Edited books, Wrote funding reports
19/11/2013 - 31/03/2014	Part-time Instructor	Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Taught the Korean Language to PhD students
01/06/2012 - 31/01/2013	Researcher	Research Institute of Body Culture Studies, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea;
01/08/2012 - 31/01/2013	Postdoctoral Researcher	Yonsei-SERI (Samsung Economic Research Institute), EU Centre, Seoul, Korea; Researched on European Integration; Published monthly newsletters; Arranged monthly EU lectures given by scholars and diplomats from Europe; Arranged special lectures by Professor Guy Sorman and Jean-Pierre Rafarrin, Fromer Prime Minister of France; In charge of distant lectures through video conferences (among Keio University, Japan, Fudan University, China, and Hitotsubashi University, Japan and Yonsei University, Korea)
01/09/2012 - 28/02/2013	Part-Time Lecturer	Kumoh National University of Technilogy, Gumi, Korea; Taught English Writing, Academic English to undergraduate students
01/03/2012 - 28/02/2013	Part-Time Lecturer	Konkuk University, Chungju, Korea; Taught English Writing, Academic English to undergraduate students
01/03/2011 - 28/02/2012	Full-Time Lecturer	Konkuk University, Chungju, Korea; Taught History of English Literature to undergraduate students; Student consulting; Course design
01/03/2010 - 28/02/2011	Assistant Professor	Gyeonggi College of Science and Technology, Siheung, Korea; Taught Introduction to English Literature, Children´s Literature to undergraduate students; In charge of the International Office; Prepared and processed MOUs; Set up dial degree programmes with colleges and universities in Europe and North Amercia; Organised study tours for undergraduate students
01/03/2008 - 28/02/2010	Full-Time Lecturer	Anyang University, Anyang, Korea; Taught Academic English, English Writing to undergraduate students; Course design and development; Student consulting
01/03/2008 - 31/08/2008	Part-Time Lecturer	Seoul Institute of the Arts, Ansan, Korea; Taught Feminism to undergraduate students
22/08/2005 - 29/02/2008	Part-Time Lecturer	Kangwon National University, Samcheok, Korea; Taught Introduction to English Literature, Short Stories, English Novels, English Writing, Feminism to undergraduate students

Non-Academic Career

From - To	Position	Company	Remarks
17/07/2009 - 16/05/2012	Chairman Board of Directors	Waldmann Korea Ltd.	Official Distributor of Waldmann Pens in Korea, imported luxury writing instruments
01/04/2007 - 06/02/2009	Member Board of Directors	IZP Technologies Ltd.	Produced uniforms and supplied to franchised restaurants, designed and printed logos on uniforms

Granted Projects

From - To	Institution, City	Project, Director	Duty; Fund Scale
01/09/2014 - Present	The Academy of Korea Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany	"Transcoding as Cultural and Social Practice", Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung LEE	Coordinating the project, organising conferences and workshops, writing annual reports, editing publications; 710.000 Euro (5 years)
01/01/2014 - 15/06/2014	The Academy of Korea Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany	"Circulation of Knowledge and Dynamics of Transformation", Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung LEE	Coordinating the project, organising international conferences and workshops, writing a funding application, writing the final report, editing publication; 710.000 Euro (5 years)
01/10/2012 - 31/12/2012	Korea Internet and Security Agency, Seoul, Korea	"Building an Industrial Map for Internet Security", Dr. Moon-Sun SHIN	Research and translation; 30.000.000 Won (app. 21.500 Euro for 3 months)

Academic Membership

Microhistory Network (www.microhistory.eu)

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• Publication List

A) Dissertations

1. Bährisch, Eunju (in preparation): Coffee Service: How It Has Changed Women’s Lives in Korea. PhD. Freie Universität Berlin. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee.

2. Hwang, Eunju (2009): Disaster and Perversion in Techno-Capitalist Societies: Reading J. G. Ballard's Fiction from a Deleuzian Perspective. PhD. University of Essex. Supervisor: Dr. Shohini Chaudhuri.

3. Hwang, Eunju (2002): A Study of New Society and New Human Beings in the Technological Age: The Influence of Technology in J. G. Ballard’s Fictional Works. MA. University of Essex. Supervisor: Dr. Shohini Chaudhuri.

B) Academic Publications

1. Bährisch, Eunju. (submitted): “Why did the Demon Come at Noontide?: Understanding Acedia in Medieval Monastic Life." Kodikas/Code - Ars Semiotica.

2. Bährisch, Eunju. (submitted): "Redefining Food: The Gluttony of Monks and the Manipulation of the Benedictine Food Doctrine in the Late Medieval Period." Food, Culture and Society.

3. Marcus, Daniel and Bährisch, Eunju. (2013). “The Pursuit of Happiness, Stress and Temporo-mandibular Disorders.” Health, Culture and Society vol. 5 no. 1. 52-67.

4. Hwang, Eunju. (2013): “어메리칸 사이코”로 보는 성과사회 속 현대인의 정체성 위기 이해 (Understanding Identity Crisis of Modern Human Beings in Performance Society through American Psycho).” The Journal of Mirae English Language & Literature vol. 18 no. 1. 109-131.

5. Hwang, Eunju. (2012): "도가와 융의 사상으로 본 우르술라 르 귄의 ‘어스시의 마법사’ 연구(Reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Eaerthsea in the Context of Taoism and Jungian Theories).” Children’s Literature and Translation no. 24. 397-417.

6. Hwang, Eunju. (2012): "레이 브래드베리의 화씨 451과 지식 통제의 사회 (Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Society of Controlled Knowledge).” Journal of English Language and Literature vol. 58 no. 4. 589-609.

7. Hwang, Eunju. (2012): "플라톤의 동굴의 비유로 본 매트릭스: 자유와 진실의 의미 재고 (Analysing The Matrix in the Frame of Plato's Allegory of the Cave: Rethinking Meaning of Liberation and Truth).” The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature no. 26. 145-165.

8. Hwang, Eunju. (2011): “The Middle Class, Boredom and Violence: Reading J. G. Ballard’s Suburban Disaster Quartet of Cocaine Night, Super-Cannes, Millennium People and Kingdom Come.” Studies of English Language and Literature vol. 53 no. 4. 405-424.

9. Hwang, Eunju. (2011): “정보사회에서의 지식의 위기 (Crisis of Knowledge in the Age of Information).” Legislation and Policy vol. 5 no. 1. 8-27.

10. Hwang, Eunju. (2010): “통제 사회에서의 시선과 권력의 역전관계 (Observation and Power Relation in Control Societies: Reading J. G. Ballard’s Crash).” The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature no. 23. 293-313.

11. Hwang, Eunju. (2009): “Taoist Self-Development Vs. Jungian Wholeness: Reading J. G. Ballard’s Natural Transformation Quartet of The Wind from Nowhere, The Drowned World, The Drought and The Crystal World.” The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature no. 21. 259-276.

12. Hwang, Eunju. (2006): "Deleuzian Simulacra in Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau.” Artciencia no.5. 1-13. <www.artciencia.com>. E-journal.

13. Hwang, Eunju. (2005): Violence and Perversion in J. G. Ballard’s Crash in Eds. Jonathan E. Lynch and Gary Wheeler. On Violence from a Phenomenological Point of View. (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press), 65-70. E-Book.

C) Publications for general readers

1. Hwang, Eunju. (2013): "권태와 폭력 (Ennui and Violence)" in Boredom: The Anatomy of Tedium. Research Institute of Body Culture Studies Series. (Seoul: Jaeum&Moeum). 135-166.

2. Hwang, Eunju. (2010): "핫미디어의 소용돌이에서 빠져나가기 (In the Maelstrom of Technology)" in What Does Science Mean to Us? Ed. Lee Kwon-Woo. (Seoul: Science Books), 219-230.

D) Book review

1. Bährisch, Eunju. (2014, forthcoming). Korean Horror Cinema, edited by Alison Peirse and Daniel Martin. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 256 pages. £19.99. ISBN: 978-0-7486-4309-7. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.

2. Bährisch, Eunju (2014). Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 237 pages. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-78023-025-2. HARTS & Minds. vol. 2 no. 2

E) Conference Presentations (selected)

1. Bährisch, Eunju (2014): "Political and Economic Exploitation of Female Sexuality and Services in Korea." University of Tübingen. 14-15 November 2014.

2. Hwang, Eunju. (2012): “도가와 융의 사상으로 본 우르술라 르 귄의 ‘어스시의 마법사’ 연구 (Reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Eaerthsea in the Context of Taoism and Jungian Theories).” Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. 3 November 2012.

3. Hwang, Eunju. (2012): “플라톤의 동굴의 비유로 본 매트릭스: 자유와 진실의 의미 재고 (Analyzing The Matrix in the Frame of Plato's Allegory of the Cave: Rethinking Meaning of Liberation and Truth).” Konkuk Univeresity, Seoul, Korea. 21 April 2012.

4. Hwang, Eunju. (2011): “정보사회에서의 지식의 위기 (Crisis of Knowledge in the Age of Information).” Institute of Legal Studies. Korea Human Rights Centre, Seoul, Korea. 2 April, 2011.

5. Hwang, Eunju. (2011): “The Smarter and the Dumber: Problems of the Current Internet Environment and Polarization of Intelligence.” AAGS. International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. 11 March 2011.

6. Hwang, Eunju. (2009): “통제 사회에서의 시선과 권력의 역전관계 (Observation and Desire in Control Societies).” Korean Jungang English Language and Literature Association. Konkuk University, Chungju, Korea. 28 May, 2009.

7. Hwang, Eunju. (2007): “Quests for Self in J. G. Ballard’s Natural Transformation Quartet.” Shanghai to Shepperton. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 5 May, 2007.

8. Hwang, Eunju. (2005): “Utopia and Violence in Late Capitalist Society: J. G. Ballard’s Detective Thriller Trilogy of Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes and Millennium People.” Imagining the Future. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 6-7 December, 2005.

9. Hwang, Eunju. (2005): "Modern Primitivity." AHRB Workshop on Urban Futures. SOAS, University of London, London, UK. 11-13 May, 2005.

10. Hwang. Eunju. (2004): "Violence and Perversion in Machine Culture." Cultures of Violence. Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 20-23 September, 2004.

11. Hwang, Eunju. (2004): "Simulacra: Between Baudrillard and Deleuze." Inscriptions. Eastern Mediterranean University. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Famagusta, North Cyprus. 3-4 June, 2004.

F) Working Papers

1. Bährisch, Eunju (in preperation): "Society of Controlled Knowledge."

2. Bährisch, Eunju (in preparation): "Political and Economic Exploitation of Female Sexuality and Services in Korea."

3. Bährisch, Eunju (in preparation): "Homo Ludens between Media Entertainment and Violence."

The following above mentioned publications have evolved from my doctoral dissertation. B8, B11, B13