Professor Dong Hoon Kim is a media historian and cultural studies scholar whose primary research interest lies in excavating film and media history to uncover and unpack the historical, ideological, and discursive formations of visual culture. His current research and teaching focus on colonial cinema, socialist cinema, transnational media, media spectatorship, and East Asian film, media, and popular culture. He is the author of Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and the co-editor, with Travis Workman and Immanuel Kim, of The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). He engages in a variety of activities in the field besides his academic research, directing short films, working for film festivals, and serving as consultant to film company.