Kee-Yoon Nahm
Associate Professor of Theatre Studies
Sch of Theatre Dance and Film
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Center for the Visual Arts - CVA 211A
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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
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)