Seung-hoon Jeong

Seung-hoon Jeong, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at California State University, Long Beach. A former film critic in South Korea, he has taught various film and media studies courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Professor Jeong’s teaching centers on critical studies of modern and contemporary films while expanding to emergent genres, topics, and areas such as the mind-game film, the cinema of catastrophe, Korean cinema, posthumanism, and interface culture with a global scope. He also received Korea’s Cine21 Film Criticism Award (2003) and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award (2012).

Professor Jeong earned his B.A. and M.A. in French Literature at Seoul National University and his Ph.D. with distinction in Film Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University.