About
Sonia Singh is a budding scholar of contemporary Korean literature and visual culture dedicated to bridging Korea-India relations through narratives and mediascapes. Through an interdisciplinary framework, her current project charts how storytelling sustains or reimagines ideologies (e.g., right-wing nationalism, developmentalism) that traverse medial and geospatial boundaries within Asia in postcolonial contexts. Sonia is grateful to the Dept. of ALC and the Rackham Merit Fellowship for their support in her training and research.
Sonia holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies from New York University and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her master’s thesis project titled, “Intermedial Ruptures of Witnessing Oral History: Visual Historiography, Remediation and Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Graphic Novels,” examines Gendry-Kim’s biographical graphic novels, Grass and The Waiting, as visual historiography that amplifies otherwise marginalized narratives of historical trauma from survivors of the Korean War and calls them “into being” as image-events. Such graphic novels thus resist revisionist discourse and instead call for contemporary audiences to witness oral histories as living, forward-moving histories.
Sonia has participated in summer research programs with Ewha Womans University in Seoul and Rackham’s Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS). She has also gained consulting experience as the Lead Researcher of HRCap, Inc., an Asian American global recruiting firm, where she leveraged Korean and English sources for market research and curriculum development regarding glocalization, diversity and cultural competency
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