fellowships & awards (selected)

2026      The 2026 Graduate Student Essay Prize, the ExFM (Experimental Film and Media) group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the SCMS conference (Chicago, 2026 March)

Essay title: “Throbbing Colors, Feeling Sounds: José Val del Omar’s Garden of Machines”

2026       Kusama Award, Department of Art, Stony Brook University

2025-26     Miriam and Maurice Goldberger Fellowship, Department of Art, Stony Brook University

2024      The 2024 Graduate Student Essay Prize, the ExFM (Experimental Film and Media) group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the SCMS conference (Boston, 2024 March)                 

Essay title: “On Cinema of Garbage: Takahiko iimura’s Kuzu (Junk)

2023-24.     Miriam and Maurice Goldberger Fellowship, Department of Art, Stony Brook University

2018       Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award, 3rd Award, College of Humanities, Seoul National University

2014      Undergraduate Essay Competition, 3rd Award, Center for Teaching and Learning in Seoul National University

Essay title: “Who is the ‘Butterfly in the Cage’ – Brechtian Reason to Read Desire”

2013-16   Korean Governmental ‘Humanities 100 Years’ Scholarship (full scholarship), Korea Student Aid Foundation