Chuyun Oh

Chuyun Oh (PhD in Performance Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) is a Fulbright scholar and Professor of Dance Theory and Practice at San Diego State University. She is the author of K-pop Dance Education (Routledge, 2026) and K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (Routledge, 2023), an Amazon New Release bestseller and a shortlist finalist for the Dance Studies Association’s de la Torre Bueno First Book Award. As a pioneer of K-pop dance studies, she offers the first K-pop dance courses in the US and issues K-pop Creator Certificates through her research institute, Oniz Lab. Her award-winning scholarship and performances on popular dance and ethnography have received multiple national and international grants and have appeared in more than sixty global media outlets, thirty keynote speeches and book talks, and over thirty anthologies as well as top-tier journals. Having begun classical ballet training at Sun Hwa Arts School, she performed internationally as a professional modern dancer early in her career, earning several international dance competition awards. She serves on the editorial boards of Text and Performance Quarterly, Asian Communication Research, and Dance Chronicle.