Seokyoung Kim

Seokyoung Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation investigates interculturality, minority authorship, and the operatic canon through Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly (2022), an adaptation of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. This research has been supported by a 2024 AMS Travel/Research Grant. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century music, East Asian music in both local and global contexts, Asian American representation, and music criticism. Her publications include “A Study on Tan Dun’s The First Emperor: Through the Lens of Cultural Hybridity and Identity” (The Journal of the Musicological Society of Korea, 2019) and a translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in P’ansori” (Music Theory Online, 2024). She has presented at the International Musicological Society and the AMS Southwest Chapter and will present on Huang’s M. Butterfly at the 2025 AMS annual meeting. Beyond academia, she contributes opera reviews to Parterre Box.