Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1: Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias

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Yeojin Kim Ph.D. is an associate professor in Communication at Central Connecticut State University USA. She is also affiliated with the East Asian Studies and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies. Her primary research area is digital media and strategic communication focusing on how organizations and the public communicate in a digital media environment employing various messages and channels to achieve specific strategic goals. Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Anglophone and World Literatures in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University USA. With a background in comparative literature Jayasinghes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research and teaching interests include themes in immigration visa law and policy LGBTQIA+ identity Global South epistemologies and translation studies in anglophone and world literatures and film. Hiba Aleem Ph.D. is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English Writing and Communication at Emmanuel College Boston USA where she teaches Literary Methods and has taught Global Literature and Film and Academic Writing. She is also a Fulbright program scholar from Washington College Chestertown holds a Ph. D in English from JNU New Delhi and has more than six years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in English literature language and writing. Karen A. Ritzenhoff Ph.D. is a professor in Communication and Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at Central Connecticut State University USA. In 2021 she co-edited Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century (Palgrave) with Elena Caoduro and Karen Randell. New Perspectives on the War Film was published by Palgrave in 2019 co-edited with Clémentine Tholas and Janis L. Goldie. Ritzenhoff has published three additional anthologies with Palgrave.