Bonnie Tilland
University lecturer
- Name
- Dr. B.R. Tilland
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2191
- b.r.tilland@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Bonnie Tilland is a university lecturer in the Institute for Area Studies. Her focus is on family, gender and media in contemporary South Korea, from anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives.
More information about Bonnie Tilland
Fields of interest
- Gender, family and kinship
- New and old media studies
- Transnational East Asia
- Qualitative research methods
Research
My research is concerned with the ways that experiences of family life connect to broader sensory and affective shifts in South Korean society. My current book project examines motherhood ideology and practice through these sensory and affective dimensions, using media as a lens.
Most recently I have begun a project comparing the global language promotion efforts of South Korea and Taiwan, situating these official language and culture initiatives in the framework of soft power. Outside of ethnographic projects, I publish on television, film, and digital media.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD Sociocultural Anthropology (University of Washington)
MA International Studies (Korea) (University of Washington)
BA East Asian Languages and Cultures (Lawrence University)
Previous Employment
2021-2022 Associate Professor, Division of Asian Studies, Yonsei Mirae campus.
2015-2021 Assistant Professor, East Asia International College (EIC), Yonsei Mirae campus.
University lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS Korea
- Tilland B.R. (2024), "Wise Mothers," "Mom Bugs," and Pyŏngmat (Twisted Tastes): the limits of maternal emotional expression in South Korean webtoons, Korean Studies 48: 284-317.
- Tilland B. (2023), Sensory Connections Between Food and Femininity in Yim Soon-rye’s Little Forest and Lee Seo-gun’s The Recipe. In: Kim M. (Ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Yim Soon-rye. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. 96-112.
- Tilland B.R. & Tsai B. (2023), Of fleas and Parasite: unpacking class and space in Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite, New Review of Film and Television Studies 21(4): 668-685.
- Tilland B. (2022), (Some of) the precariat can speak, but can they share?, Current Anthropology 63(5): 511-512.
- Tilland B.R. (2022), Review of: Ch'anho K. (2014|2018), 『모멸감: 굴욕과 존엄의 감정사회학』 = Humiliation: An emotional sociology of disgrace and dignity | 『유머니즘: 웃음과 공감의 마음사회학』 = Humonism: An emotional sociology of laughter and sympathy. Seoul. Korean Anthropology Review 6(February 2022): 243-251.
- Tilland B.R. (2021), Baker kings, rice liquor princesses, and the coffee elite: food nationalism and youth creativity in the construction of Korean ‘taste’ in late 2000s and early 2010s television dramas, Acta Koreana 24(1): 77-104.
- Tilland B.R. (2021), Towards a visual sociology and anthropology of North Korea: South Korean, North Korean, and external filmic representations, Journal of Asian Sociology 50(2): 299-320.
- Tilland B.R. (2020), The North on Southern screens: hybrid Korean screen cultures in mid-2000s films, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 46(2): 217-245.
- Tilland B.R. (2020), Kwinong kwich’on kwihyang (back-to-the-land) discourse of young South Korean families exchanging ‘Hell Chosŏn’ for Breathing Room (yŏyu). In: Park H. & Woo H. (Eds.), Korean families yesterday and today. Perspectives on Contemporary Korea, University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. 296-322.
- Tilland B.R. (2018), Transgressive academic all-stars and conventional teen idols: school-age South Koreans and hakpumo (school parents) navigating the system. In: Ahn J.Y. (Ed.), Transgression in Korea: beyond resistance and control. Perspectives on Contemporary Korea. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. 165-194.
- Tilland B.R. (2017), Save your K-drama for your mama: mother-daughter bonding in between nostalgia and futurism, Acta Koreana 20(2): 377-393.
- Tilland B.R. (2017), Dreaming, making and breaking family and kinship in contemporary South Korea, Education About Asia 22(3): 1-5.
- Tilland B.R. (2016), Family is beautiful: the affective weight of mothers-in-law in family talk in South Korea, Journal of Korean Studies 21(1): 213-244.