Hyun Kyong Ha nnah Chang is Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield. Sh e is a musicologist and historian with research interest in sociocultural f ormations in trans-Pacific Korea. Her research examines nineteenth- and twe ntieth-century Korea within the intertwined histories of the U.S.\, Japan\, and Korea\, paying attention to the aspects of musical diffusion that inte rsected with the history of empires and the formations of new selfhoods. Cu rrently\, she is writing a book entitled A Vocal Interior: Korean Hymns and Prayers between the US and Japanese Empires. She has published on music an d Korean Christianity\, Japanese school music in colonial Korea\, and Korea n popular music.