Hosu Kim

Hosu Kim is a doctoral candidate at City University of New York, The Graduate Center. As a native of Korea, she came to the United States in the early 1990s. Her research interests are Adoption, Media Studies, Performance Studies and Korean Nationalism. She is currently finishing her dissertation, entitled Performing Loss: The Emergent Figure of the Korean Birthmother. Her dissertation examines the cultural politics of loss deployed in various figures of Korean birthmothers in popular media, such as television search shows and the Internet. In addition, she has produced and performed auto-ethnographic pieces. One of them, part of “Still Present Pasts,” a multi-media art exhibit on Korean Americans’ collective memories about the Korean War, is currently on a national tour of major US cities.