Welcome! I am a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages at Yale University. I was also a Postdoctoral Associate in the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale. Prior to that, I was a Korea Foundation- Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the Korea Institute and a lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. In 2020 Spring, I was a lecturer at Stanford University. 

 

My substantive research interests include film, media, cultural studies, critical theory, and gender politics, with a regional focus on Korea and China. 

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I am currently working on two book projects:  Screen-capitalism: Global Korean Screen Culture in Postsocialist China examines the cultural dynamics within Korean and Chinese screen media at their intersections with affect, aesthetics, gender, and ideology; Screen Culture as Shaman: Mediated Justice, Law, and Ethics in East Asian Screen Media, focuses on screen media’s potentiality of opening an affective and representational space of virtuality that directly impacts the criminal justice system in actuality.

 

Feel free to contact me at: litian0927@gmail.com

 

Please find information on my research and teaching by clicking the link below.