Her research interests in performance, Korea-Africa relations, and racial politics in contemporary South Korea have shaped her manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled, Choreographing Affinities: Performance and Transnational Blackness in Korea. Soo Ryon Yoon’s writings are published or forthcoming in <비틈> (web), Theatre Journal, Journal of Contemporary Research in Dance (当代舞蹈艺术研究), positions: asia critique, Dancing East Asia (Emily Wilcox and Katherine Mezur, eds), ASAP/J, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.