Joanne Cho

Professional Interests

Joanne Miyang CHO is a professor in the history department. She specializes in modern German history, Asian-German studies, and contemporary Korean culture. Her teaching experience includes visiting lectures at the International Summer School, Ewha Womans University (South Korea, 2018), and as an assistant professor at Hope College (1992-1995). Her administrative experience at WPU includes being the departmental chair (2011-2017), acting departmental chair (2017-2018), and graduate director (2018-2019). Her experience at the German Studies Association includes serving as Conference Program Director (2019 & 2020) and as a member of the Executive Council (2021-2023). She has served as series co-editor for “Palgrave Studies in Asian German Studies” since 2015.

In addition, Prof. Cho has received several fellowships, including the Fulbright Fellowship, the Max Planck Institute for History, the Leibniz Institute for European History, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the NEH Seminar, and the Seoul National University (Kyujangkak Overseas Publishing Grant).

BOOKS
--Under Review. (co-authored). German-speaking Jewish Refugees and the Chinese in Shanghai, 1938-1949: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
--(co-authored). An Introduction to K-Pop and BTS: Global Appeal and Fandom (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025).
--(co-edited). Korean Culture in the Global Age: K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Film, and K-Literature (Routledge, 2025).
--(co-edited). German Jews and Asians in the Shadow of the Holocaust, 1930-1950: Shelter from the Storm?  (Routledge, 2025).
--(co-edited) Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea: History, Politics, and Sociology, 1910 to the Present (Routledge, 2023).
--(edited) East-Asian German-East Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present (Routledge, 2021).
--(edited) Musical Entanglements between East Asia and Germany: Transnational Affinity in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
--(edited) Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Perspectives, 1890-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
--(edited) German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics since 1945 (Routledge, 2021).
--(edited) Transnational Encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900 (Routledge, 2018).
--(co-edited) Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics in the Long Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
--(co-edited). Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia: Transnational Perspectives since 1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
--(co-edited) Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan. Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). 
--(co-edited) Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). 
--(co-edited) Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Routledge, 2013). 

Languages (other than English)