About

Jin is an advanced Ph.D. candidate and Flagship Fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. She specializes in Rhetoric and Political Culture area and holds a graduate certificate in the Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities. She holds a B.A. in Communication Arts and Sociology from Gordon College, a small liberal arts college in the greater Boston area.

Jin’s research focuses on themes of intersectionality, imperialism, and transnational feminisms. Her dissertation critically examines the rhetorical formation of heteronormative reproductive citizenship in contemporary South Korea within the context of a declining fertility rate “crisis.” Other ongoing projects center digital media and platforms across transnational queer and feminist communities in South Korea and beyond.

Jin teaches at the Design Cultures & Creativity Living Learning Program within the Honors College at the University of Maryland. DCC is a selective interdisciplinary honors program for first- and second-year students critically tackling questions at the intersections of art, emerging technologies, digital media, society, and global issues. Outside of DCC, Jin has guest lectured in communication and Asian American gender undergraduate courses.

Dedicated to both a humanistic inquiry into the digital and the usage of digital tools to study the humanities, Jin is always playing with a new digital tool to incorporate into the classroom. Her completed and ongoing projects use ArcGIS StoryMaps, Tableau, Twine, and other tools to teach on topics of gender, sexuality, race, imperialism, and imaginative futures.

For Jin’s CV, please reach out at jinrchoi at umd dot edu.