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Andy Jackson is Associate Professor in Korean Studies at Monash University in the Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, where he also directs the Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub. His extensive academic background includes a BA (Hons) in French Language and Literature from the University of Kent (1990), an MSc in Comparative and General Literary Studies from the University of Edinburgh (1992), an MA in Korean Studies (with Special Honours) from Seoul National University (2005), an MSt in Korean Studies from the University of Oxford (2006), a PhD in Korean History from SOAS, University of London (2011), and a Certificate of Higher Education in Film and Media Studies from Birkbeck, University of London (2015). Before entering Korean Studies, Jackson spent fifteen years teaching English as a foreign language and French as a second language in Quebec, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Scotland, Denmark, and England, including training on the DELTA and CELTA certificates. His international career features roles as Korea Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-2012), Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Teaching Associate at SOAS (2011-2013), Assistant Professor (2013-2014) and Associate Professor (2014-2017) in Korean Studies at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, and since 2017 at Monash, including as Convenor of the Korean Studies Programme (2017-2019).

Jackson’s research specializations encompass Korean history—particularly rebellions, Chosŏn period dynamics, and Chŏlla Province society—North and South Korean screen cultures including cinema, TV, music videos, and online games, popular culture, invented traditions, and transnational cultural flows. Key publications include monographs The Musin Rebellion: Politics and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2016; winner of the 2017 Academy of Korean Studies Korean Studies Promotion Service Book Award) and The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2024; recipient of the 2024 Republic of Korea Ministry of Education Prize for academic achievement); edited volumes Korean Screen Cultures: Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games (Peter Lang, 2016), Invented Traditions in North and South Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2021), and The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); and articles such as “The Punishments of the 1728 Musin Rebellion Leaders” (Korean Studies, 2019) and “Jürgen Hinzpeter and Foreign Correspondents in the 1980 Kwangju Uprising” (International Journal of Asian Studies, 2020). Major awards include the 2025 Prime Minister’s Commendation from the Republic of Korea for contributions to Korean language education and overseas Korean Studies. He has directed two 5-year Core University Grants from the Academy of Korean Studies (2017-2022 and 2023-2028, totaling up to AUD 2.25 million). Jackson founded the annual Korean Screen Culture Conference, organized five international conferences, one workshop, and over 50 academic seminars, and delivers public lectures on topics like the 1980 Kwangju Uprising and North Korean cinema.