Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang is Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is a musicologist and historian with research interest in sociocultural formations in trans-Pacific Korea. Her research examines nineteenth- and twentieth-century Korea within the intertwined histories of the U.S., Japan, and Korea, paying attention to the aspects of musical diffusion that intersected with the history of empires and the formations of new selfhoods. Currently, she is writing a book entitled A Vocal Interior: Korean Hymns and Prayers between the US and Japanese Empires. She has published on music and Korean Christianity, Japanese school music in colonial Korea, and Korean popular music.
