Soyoung Yoon is Assistant Professor and Program Director of Art History & Visual Studies at the Department of the Arts, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. Also, Yoon is a Visiting Faculty of Critical Theory at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP). In 2015-16, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women under the annual theme of “Fatigue.” Yoon received her PhD from Stanford University, and holds a BA from Seoul National University. She has published in Grey Room, Discourse, Women & Performance, Millennium Film Journal, Shifters, among other journals and books.
Yoon is at work on two book projects around the re-definition of the “document” and the shift in its performative claims to the real from the post-war period to the present: Walkie Talkie: Cinéma vérité, Politics of Truth, from the Cold War to the War on Terror and TV-Buddhas: The Work of Art in the Age of Technowar.