Education

Dissertation: “Teaching Digital-Multimodal Composition for Digital-Born Students: Exploring Pedagogical Applications of Interactive Narrative Media.” Full text (TWU Repository)

Thesis: “Digital Games as Interactive Narrative and Their Eversion: The Advent of Future Narrative.”

Academic Appointments

Teaching Experience

Michigan State University

Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen

Texas Woman’s University

Co-teaching assistant

Program Assessment, Curriculum Design, and Research Experience

World literature annotated bibliography analyst (Summer 2022); rhetorical multimedia quantitative data analyst (Summer 2020).

Contributed to the digital annotated bibliography of The Victorian Cookbook Exhibit: The Queen’s Closet Reopened; designed the exhibition catalog and published digital versions (web and PDF).

Community-Engaged Experience

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

“Literary Experience and Narrative Immersion in the Interactive Digital Game Narrative as The Sense of Being There in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” ADAMarts vol. 3, RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia, pp. 97–107, 2023. Journal (ADAMarts)

Published Instructional Materials

“Assistive Yet Authorial: Critical Use of GenAI in Personal Narrative Prewriting.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Assignments & Activities Archive, 2026. Activity (Writing Spaces)

“Writing as Inquiry: Inquiring into Your Everyday-Self as an Agential and Qualitative Dataset and Discovering Your True-Self through Synthesizing Them.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative / Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, University of Michigan, Syllabus Repository: Writing with Data, July 2025. Syllabus (Digital Rhetoric Collaborative)

Book

The Pastry Universe (『페이스트리 우주』). G-World Publisher Corp., April 2024 (published in Korean, including two English poems; full-length poetry collection). Google Play Books

Selected Poems

“Flowers.” The Collection of the 32nd Korean-American Christian Literature Contest, Korean-American Christian Literature Association, Los Angeles, California, pp. 409–410, 2018 (published in Korean).

“Gangwon-Do (Gangwon-Province).” The Korea Daily, Dallas, Texas, 2017 (published in Korean).

Book Chapter

“A Long-Story-Short Poetic Autobiography: Turning Sleepless Nights into Self-Discovery and Liberation to Be a Meta-Multilingual Writer.” Heart Talks: Writing Advice for Multilingual Writers, edited by Bee Chamcharatsri; proposal accepted August 2025; revised manuscript under editorial review.

Other Publications and Public Scholarship

“How to Use the Digital Composition Lab.” Official Department Manual Series. Language, Culture, and Gender Studies Department, Texas Woman’s University, 2022.

“Defeating Writer’s Anxiety with the Writing Game, Elegy for a Dead World.” TWU Write Site Blog, The Write Site, Texas Woman’s University, 2021.

“The Writing Process: Writing Thesis Statement.” Instructional Handout, The Write Site, Texas Woman’s University, 2021. Handout (TWU Write Site)

Honors, Awards, and Scholarships

Grants and Awards

Scholarships

Texas Woman’s University

English Chapter – TWU Alumni Association, Henry H. and Evelyn M. Blagg Scholarships (2021–2022)
TWU Graduate Student Scholarship (2019–2022)
Johnnie Lee Feemster, Sharon L. Brocker, VCD Scholarship Arts & Sciences (2020–2021)
Autrey Nell Wiley Endowed Memorial Scholarship (2019–2020)
TWU International Student Scholarship (2019)
Mary Bryan & Tom C. Reitch Scholarship (2018–2019)

Korea University Sejong Campus

Korea University Research Encouragement Scholarship (2014)
Korea University National Scholarship (2013–2014)
Korea University Semester High Honors Scholarship (2013)

Professional Development and Certifications

Research Interests

I examine how emerging meaning-making technologies transform the ways writers think, compose, self-express, and make rhetorical choices, and how to educate individuals to exercise autonomous agency through digital meaning-making tools.

Research Areas

AI-Mediated Rhetorical Agency and Critical AI Literacy
Multilingual Writing and Narrative
Digital Rhetoric, Interactive Narrative, and Game Studies

Current Direction

Interactive Narrative, Generative AI, and Technical and Professional Communication

My research extends narrative and interactive narrative media pedagogy into technical and professional communication, where narrative has often been excluded in favor of factual and skills-oriented genres. I approach narrative not as an addition to technical documents for a specific purpose, but as an information-design strategy to make specialized knowledge more accessible, usable, and responsive to broader, more diverse audiences. Building on this work, I examine how fostering meta-awareness and contextual understanding of meaning by facilitating interactive narrative creation through mediated writing with GenAI can serve as a critical framework for technical communication, navigating beyond agency-replaced prompt engineering to train eventual context engineers.

Teaching Interests

Teaching Areas

First-Year Writing Pedagogy and Curriculum Design
Professional and Technical Communication
Digital-Multimodal and Online Writing Instruction

Pedagogical and Program Expertise

Curriculum and Instructional Design (ADDIE)
Online Course Development
Program Review and Course Assessment
Faculty Instructional Support
Digital Composition Lab Coordination
Writing Consultation

Languages and Memberships

Languages

English (Proficient)
Korean (Native)

Professional Memberships

Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
Sigma Tau Delta: International English Honor Society
Rhetoric Society of America, English Rhetoric Graduate Organization (ERGO-RSA)