Bo kyung Blenda Im

Bo kyung Blenda Im comes to YDS and the ISM as Assistant Professor of Sacred Music. Prof. Im has most recently been at Harvard, pursuing her scholarship as the Global Korean Diasporas Postdoctoral Fellow at the university’s Korea Institute. She specializes in popular culture and Christianity in Korea and the Korean diaspora. Her current book project, Transpacific Modernity and the Forgotten Constant: Race, Music, and Faith in Seoul, reconceives transpacific musical modernity through a restorative chronopolitical framework. She will arrive at YDS in August 2023 when she completes her post-doc fellowship.