Jin is interested in the communication of race, gender, sexuality, and nationhood in public discourse. Her current research critically examines the rhetoric of the low fertility rate in contemporary South Korea, especially in the context of the maintenance of the heteronormative family.
Research areas
Rhetoric and communication studies; transnational queer and feminist studies; critical Korean studies; race, nation, and citizenship; Asia and Asian America; digital humanities and cultures.
Selected publications
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- “‘Violent’ Feminism as Justification for Violent Misogyny: Gendered Violence and Anti-Feminist Backlash in Contemporary South Korea.” In “Spectacles of Control: Gendered Violence across Cultures,” edited by Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, special issue, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, online first (2026): 53–56.
- “The U.S. Empire Remembers Violence Against Asian Women: ‘Comfort Women’ Monuments and Transnational Global Memoryscapes.” Women’s Studies in Communication 48, no. 3 (2025): 307–328.
- “Do I Belong in Ikseon-Dong?: Glocalized Cosmopolitan Spaces of Belonging.” In Diaspora Within Homeland: Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea, edited by Min Hwa Han, Eun-Jeong Han, and JongHwa Lee. Routledge, 2025.
Selected research awards and fellowships
University of Maryland
- Charles Richardson Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2026)
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship (2025)
- Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean’s Graduate Research Award (2024)
- Flagship Fellowship (2020–2026)
National Communication Association
- James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award Laureate Group (2023)
- Top Paper Award, Korean American Communication Association (2021)
Scholarly communities and affiliations
National Communication Association; International Communication Association; Rhetoric Society of America; Association for Asian American Studies; Association for Asian Studies; Korean Association for LGBTQ+ and Queer Studies; Decolonizing Korean Studies Collective.
Public and digital humanities projects
- “Transnational Public Memory: Unsettling National Museum Narratives of World War II.” Funded and hosted by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric’s Expanding the History of Rhetoric Pedagogy Initiative. Co-authored with Megu Itoh.
- “Comfort Women Monuments: A Transnational Global Memoryscape. A Digital Humanities Resource for Students and Educators.” ArcGIS StoryMaps. Developed in connection with the 2025 Women’s Studies in Communication article.