Doctoral Student Fellow
Ph.D Candidate East Asian Studies, New York University
Soundscape and the Formation of the Public and Subjectivity in 1920s-1930s Japan
Eun Jeong Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Studies. Her research field is modern and contemporary Japanese media, cinema, and culture, with a particular focus on issues of modernity, sound, media technology, and humanities.
Her dissertation, “Soundscape and the Formation of the Public and Subjectivity in 1920s-1930s Japan (tentative),” explores the transformation and (re)creation of soundscape in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, and
illuminate the relationship between humans, technology, capitalism, modernity, and modern subjectivity of audience and urban residents through media experience, by examining the transformation from silent cinema to talkie cinema (cinematic soundscape), conceptualization of noise and silence (urban soundscape), and marginalized cinematic and urban soundscape from a
postcolonial perspective. With the support of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship and the sponsorship of the University of Tokyo, she conducted archival research in Japan from 2022-2024.