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Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

Kee-Yoon Nahm

Associate Professor of Theatre Studies
School of Theatre and Dance
Office
Center for the Visual Arts - CVA 211A
Office Phone
(309) 438-8783office
phone
Email
knahm@ilstu.eduemail
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Biography

Kee-Yoon Nahm, D.F.A. (Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama) is Associate Professor of 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.

Current Courses

379.001Dramaturgy

473.001Dramaturgy

103.001Fundamentals Of Theatre I

103.002Fundamentals Of Theatre I

477.001Professional Seminar In Theatre Studies

400.001Independent Study

464.002Advanced Projects In Design

408.001Directed Projects In Acting And Directing

104.001Fundamentals Of Theatre II

104.002Fundamentals Of Theatre II

499.001Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

400.005Independent Study

498.003Professional Practice

477.001Professional Seminar In Theatre Studies

476.001Seminar In Theatre History

Other Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism

Yale School of Drama
New Haven, CT

MFA Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism

Yale School of Drama
New Haven, CT

Bachelor of Arts English Language and Literature & Korean Language and Literature

Korea University
Seoul, South Korea

Plays in Translation Contest

Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre and the American Literary Translators Association
2023

Creative Activity Initiative Award

Illinois State University
2022

Creative Activity Initiative Award

Woksook Kim College of Fine Arts
2022

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts Research Initiative Award

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2021

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts Service Initiative Award

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts College Council
2020

Impact Award

University College, Illinois State University
2020

University Research Grant

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2020

Book Review

Nahm, K. Book Review: Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity. Rebecca Kastleman (EDs). Modern Drama (2023)
Nahm, K. Book review of America in the Round: Capitalism, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35.1 (2020)

Book, Chapter

Nahm, K. Choosing the ‘Best’ Translation for Plays outside the Western Canon on the Syllabus. Charles O’Malley (EDs), Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice. Routledge (2023)
Nahm, K. The Subversion of Everyday Life: Neoliberal South Korea and the Theatre of the Everyday in the Plays of Park Geun-hyung. Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li (EDs), Realisms in East Asian Performance. University of Michigan Press (2023)
Nahm, K. "Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee". Meerzon, Yana, Dean, David, McNeil, Daniel (EDs), Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan (2020): 57-75.

Journal Article

Nahm, K. Mapping Translation and Performance. Terrence Murphy, Kee-Yoon Nahm (EDs). Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 14.2 (2021): 1-22.
Nahm, K. "What Kind of Theatre to Return To?: COVID-19 and the Realignment of American Theatre". Mihee Kim (EDs). Theatre Forum [Yeoneuk Porum] 2021 (2021)
Nahm, K. "American Theatre after 9/11". Mihee Kim (EDs). Theatre Forum [Yeoneuk Porum] (2020): 62-76.

Presentations

Choosing the ‘Best’ Translation for Plays on the Syllabus. Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2022)
FutureStage Manifesto: Asia. FutureStage Manifesto: Asia. metaLab at Harvard University and Freie Universität Berlin. (2022)
New Play Development as Pedagogy for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. (2022)
Codemakers: Jennifer Koh, Davóne Tines, Ken Ueno, and Kee-Yoon Nahm. Codemakers: Jennifer Koh, Davóne Tines, Ken Ueno, and Kee-Yoon Nahm. University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center. (2021)
Romance of the Two Kingdoms: U.S.-China Relations and Trans-Pacific Criticism in Chinglish and Soft Power. Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2020)
Translating Characters across Language, Culture, and Gender: Yellow Inn and King Lear. Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2020)
“‘Why’d You Change Your Name?’:Diaspora, Translation, and Historiography in the Work of Mo Bahc/Bahc Yiso”. American Society for Theatre Research. (2020)

Grants & Contracts

FY21 University Research Grant (Archival Research on the Work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha). Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2020)