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Dr. Sung Un Gang

B03 : Smart People

Technische Universität Berlin
BH-N Building
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1
Room 228
10587 Berlin

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s.gang@tu-berlin.de

CV

  • Academic career

  • since 06/2022

    PostDoc researcher of CRC 1265 „Re-Figuration of Spaces,“ project „B03 Smart People: Queer everyday lives in digitalized spaces.“ Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

  • 04/2015 - 05/2022

    PhD in Theater- and Media studies, University of Cologne.
    Dissertation: The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses about Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century

  • 09/2019 - 05/2022

    Research associate of Insitute for Orient- and Asian studies (Korean studies), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

  • 03/2018 - 08/2018

    Junior Fellow of International Center for Korean Studies at Kyujanggak Institute, Seoul National University

  • Work experiences

  • 5/2021 - 12/2022

    Column „Koelleun“ for Zwischengang
    www.zwischengang.de

  • since 01/2020

    Production of the queer Asian interview podcasts "Bin ich süßsauer?"
    https://binichsuesssauer.podigee.io

  • 02/2013 - 09/2019

    Correspondent in Germany of the news magazine Sisa Journal
    www.sisajournal.com

  • 05/2007 - 07/2009

    CIvil service, district office of Seoul

  • Course of study

  • 10/2010 - 11/2013

    M.A. German studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    M.A. thesis: Thomas Mann’s Novel Doktor Faustus and the Question of German Sin after 1945

  • 03/2004 - 08/2010

    B.A. German studies, Seoul National University
    B.A. thesis: The Developing Concept of the Bad and the Metamorphosis of the Devil’s Figure in Faust Literature

  • Grants

  • Academy of Korean Studies (2022). Publications grant (Projekt no.: AKS-2023-P013)

  • Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Goethe Institut (2021). Competition for multilingual podcasts. Finalist

  • Spotify (2019). SoundUp LGBTTIQ Podcast Workshop in Germany. Finalist

  • a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (2015-2018). Doctoral scholarship holder

  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2011-2013). M.A. scholarship holder

  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2009-2010). Scholarship holder of German Studies Institutional Partnership

Research Focus

    • Cultural history of Korea

    • Queer studies

    • Urban culture

    • Postcolonial studies

    • Discourse analysis

Publications

  • (selected)

    • Gang, Sung Un. (2024). The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses on Korean Female Spec-tators in the Early Twentieth Century. Bielefeld: transcript.

    • Bernroider, Lucie, Miro Born, Christy Kulz and Sung Un Gang (eds.). (forthcoming 2024). Intersectionality and the City: Violence and Inequalities in Urban Space. London: Routledge.

    • Gang, Sung Un, Martina Löw und Jörg Stollmann. (accepted). „Verstädterung, Raumkonstitution und Eigentumserwerb. Räumliche Refiguration in Südkorea zwischen Familialismus und queeren Communities.“ Berliner Journal für Soziologie.

    • Gang, Sung Un. (2023). „Liebesfilme, Geschlechtskrankheiten und eugenische Ehe. Diskurse über Seouler Kinobesucherinnen in den 1920er- und -30er-Jahren”. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 48. 221–242, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-023-00536-0.

       

    • Gang, Sung Un. (2020). K’orona, yŏrǔm kumŏng [Corona, A Summer Hole]. In Ch’oe, J. and others (eds.), Munhak kwa sahoe haip’ǔn: K’orona apect’ǔ [Hyphen: The Corona Affect. The Supplement of Literature and Society] (P. 183–203). Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa.

  • Invited talks (selected)

    • 11/2024
      “Rediscovering Audience Publicness: Korean Female Spectators and the Challenges of Postcolonial Theater Historiography”. Invited guest lecture at Ohio State University.

    • 07/2024
      “Queer Refiguration of Spaces. Exploring LGBTQIA+ Everyday Lives in Seoul.” Queering Asia. Doing Field Research on Lives in the South Korean and Taiwanese Queer Community. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

    • 01/2024
      “We Are Everywhere. But Where Are We? Exploring Queer Everyday Space in Seoul”. Global Solidarity Lecture Series (online). Virtual NYI #8. The NYI Global Institute of Cultural Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies.

    • 09/2023
      Report on the current state of queer people’s human rights in South Korea. Panel on Asia. ‚Queerpolitische Menschenrechtskonferenz‘, German Bundestag (AG Queer, SPD Parliamentary group).

    • 03/2023
      “Queer People as Emerging Citizens of Seoul. Challenges of Everyday Life and Visions of the Future.” Invited Talk at the National Assembly Futures Institute, South Korea.

  • Conference papers (selected)

    • 08/2024
      “The Sense of Placelessness: Analyzing Intersectional Marginalization of Seoul’s Queer Inhabitants” International Geographical Union (IGU), ‘Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change Conference’, University College Dublin.

    • 03/2024
      “Exploring Age-Based Conflicts in South Korean Queer Communities: A Sociocultural Analysis”. Área de estudios de asia oriental, ‘Marginality, Inclusion, and Gender in Korea: Past and Present,’ University of Malaga.

    • 06/2023
      “Surviving the Coming of Age. Explorinhg Queer Life Stories through Oral History Interviews.” ‘Korean Youth Spaces, Ecologies and Technologies.’ The University of Edinburgh.

  • Media contributions (selected)