Her research concerns documentary film and video, the politics of popular culture, and the way film, video, and television represent the affect and temporality of compressed modernization in East Asia. She is currently working on a book about the appeal of genre cinemas in South Korea, since the transition from military to civilian government, and a new project on the relationship between popular culture and populism in South Korea that focuses on the “Korean Wave,” celebrity labor, and media liberalization. Her recent publications include “Face Value: The Star as Genre in Bong Joon-ho’s Mother” in The Kpop Reader(Duke UP, 2012) and “Recursive Fictions and the Citizen Celebrity: Tropes of Metatextuality in South Korean TV” in Hallyu 2.0 (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). http://www.mcgill.ca/eas/faculty