Dr. Hyeryung Hwang is a multidisciplinary teacher-scholar with research and teaching experience in the fields of world literature and cinema, theories of imperialism and colonialism, and peripheral aesthetics and politics. Her research projects, drawing on both East Asia and South America, investigate what it means that the aesthetic choices of an older realism have been persistently replicated in the global periphery, exploring how the heterogeneous forms of peripheral neo-realism envision an alternative cultural analysis of global capitalism. Before joining Cal Poly Pomona, she was an Assistant Professor of English at McNeese State University. She also taught at Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she completed her doctoral degree in English.
