Kee-Yoon Nahm

Biography

Kee-Yoon Nahm, D.F.A. (Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama) is Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at Illinois State University and Festival Dramaturg of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He has published articles in Theater, Performance Research, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, among other academic journals and essay collections. His research interests include the self-conscious appropriation of cultural stereotypes, avant-garde performance, and renegotiations of Korean national and transnational identity in the twenty-first century. Kee-Yoon also works as a production dramaturg, theatre translator, and regional editor for The Theatre Times, where he covers South Korean theatre.