Presented by
Dr. Chan E. Park, Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures (Ohio State University)
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Dr. Park's specialties include research and performance of Korean musical and oral narrative tradition. She is the author of Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (University of Hawaii Press 2003) and the forthcoming monograph, Pansori as Voice Theatre: History, Theory, and Practice (Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Forms of Drama Series). Park trained in pansori singing under the late virtuoso Chung Kwonjin. Recent artistic productions include Fox Hunt and the Death of a Queen (w/ Kathy Foley, 2012); The Ohio State University annual Wind and Stream celebration of Korean performance (2013-2019), and Look & Listen: Asian Art and Music (w/ the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, February 18, 2021).