Associate Professor
Jungmin Kwon is the author of Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies (2019, University of Iowa Press). Her work has been published in academic journals, including the Journal of Popular Culture, Television & New Media, International Journal of Communication, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Journal of Fandom Studies. She was a 2022-2023 NextGen Scholar, selected by the CSIS Korea Chair and the University of Southern California Korean Studies Institute with support from The Korea Foundation. In 2022, she was selected for the College of the Arts Researcher of the Year and awarded the College of the Arts Dean’s Council Awards for Research, Scholarship & Creativity at Portland State University (Research Podcast). In 2020, she won the New Investigator Award from the National Communication Association’s Critical/Cultural Studies Division and the Encouragement Award from the College of the Arts Dean’s Council Awards for Research, Scholarship & Creativity at Portland State University.