PhD, Film and Television, UCLA
MA, Cinema Studies, CUNY
BA, English, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Dr. Hye Seung Chung is native to Seoul and received a Ph.D. in Film and Television from UCLA. Dr. Chung taught at the University of Michigan, Hamilton College, the University of Hawaii, Oakland University, and Colorado State University before joining UB. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (Temple University Press, 2006), Kim Ki-duk (University of Illinois Press, 2012), Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press, 2020), and Cinema under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2024). She is also the co-author of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Dr. Chung’s latest book on South Korean film censorship during the Cold War era is based on her Fulbright research in Seoul in 2021-2022. She is currently working on a new monograph project tentatively titled From Okja to Squid Game: The Netflixization of New Korean Media.