Stephanie泭Choi

  • Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
  • MUSICOLOGY
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is assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the College of Music. She earned a PhD in ethnomusicology from the 勛圖厙 of California, Santa Barbara, an MA in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan 勛圖厙 and a BM in Korean music from Seoul National 勛圖厙. Before joining CU Boulder, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Asia Research Institute at the State 勛圖厙 of New York at Buffalo, sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies.

Chois research focuses on popular music culture, feminism and labor and the affective economy in South Korea. She is currently working on her first book project (tentatively titled Branding Intimacy: Media, Labor, and Community in K-pop), an ethnography that examines how K-pop has become one of the worlds largest entertainment industries through the digital circulation of intimacy.

Her work has been featured in several global media outlets, including The Daily Show, The New Yorker, Korea Herald, NBC News, Arirang News, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Wall Street Journal and The Korea Times. She is president of the at the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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