Professors
신혜린 (Shin HaeRin)
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Phone Number
- 02-3290-2257
- Research Areas
- New media
- Faculty Office
- Media hall 402
- Degree
- PhD
- helenshin@korea.ac.kr
Profile
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Haerin Shin works across contemporary American/Asian American/Korean/Japanese culture and media and critical theory. Her research focuses on telepresence technology, digital/visual media aesthetics, and the ontology of alterity concerning race and ethnicity, with an emphasis on science fiction and algorithmic justice in the domain of artificial intelligence. Past and forthcoming publications include essays on techno-Orientalism; the affective contours of apocalyptic and disaster fiction and film; cyber fandom and trolling; alternative temporalities in digital film techniques; posthuman race politics and spirituality, etc. Wrapping up her first book Technology of Presence: Being and Reality in the Age of Cyberculture, and Shin is beginning to work on her next projects, Technology of Alienation (Asian and Asian American science fiction) and Technology of Differentiation (21C Korean cinema).
Publications
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1. Shin, H. (2018). Unlocking the mindware: The responsibility of building a solipsistic universe in Murakami Haruki’s hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world. positions asia critique, 26(4), 749-780. 2. Shin, H. (2016). Can nonhuman substrates dream of nirvana? Recuperating subjectivity through posthuman spirituality in “Readymade bodhisattva”. In Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 70(3), 153-162. 3. Shin, H. (2015). Beyond Representation and Simulation: Surviving the Age of Mediation and Its Failure in Kim Young-ha’s Quiz Show. Journal of Korean Studies, 20(2), 261-289. 4. Shin, H. (2021). 10 affect in the end of days: South korean science fiction cinema, doomsday book, and affective estrangement. In future yet to come. University of Hawaii Press, 225-244. 5. Lavender III, I. (2017). Engineering the techno-orient: The hyperrealization of post-racial politics in cloud atlas. In dis-orienting planets: Racial representations of asia in science fiction. University Press of Mississippi. 6. The Space between 1s and 0s: Intentional Patiency in Computational Creativity (Science Fiction Studies 2023) 7. The Shape of Transplantation as Interface: The Craft of Alienation and Reconciliation in Vietnamerica’s Journey toward Diasporic Identity (Kritika Kultura 2023) 8. Can the Chinese Room Speak? Language and Racialized Posthuman Agency in Ex Machina (Literature and Film 2023)