Faculty

HONG KAL

BA, MFA (Seoul National University), MA, PhD (SUNY, Binghamton)
Associate Professor: Art History
Department of Visual Arts, York University

hongkal@yorku.ca

Hong Kal teaches the art and cultural histories of Korea and East Asia. Her current research explores the politics of exhibitions, urban spectacles and built environments in relation to issues of nationalism and neo-liberal globalization.

Professor Kal was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University from 2003 to 2005. Her research has been supported by an Advanced Research Grant from the Korea Foundation (2007-2008) and SSHRC Standard Grant (2010-2013).

Dr. Kal is the author of Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History (Routledge, 2011); “Commemoration and the Construction of Nationalism: War Memorial Museum in Korea and Japan", The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (September 2008); “Seoul and the Time in Motion: Urban Form and Political Consciousness", Inter Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 9, issue 3 (2008), 359 – 374; “Aesthetic Construction of Ethnic Nationalism: War Memorial Museums in Japan and Korea", Chapter 9 of Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience, edited by Soon-Won Park, Gi-Wook Shin and Daqing Yang (New York: Routledge, 2007), 132-153; “Politics of Visual Comparison: Notes on the Formation of Nationalism in Colonial Expositions in Korea", Art & Culture in East Asia, no. 3 (2006), 217-249 and “Modeling the West, Returning to Asia; Shifting Identities in Japanese Colonial Expositions in Korea", Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 3 (July 2005), 507-531.