Soo Ryon Yoon is a performance researcher and dance historian based in Seoul, South Korea, currently affiliated with the Institute for East Asian Studies at Sungkonghoe University as a National Research Foundation Academic Research Professor (2023-2028).

Yoon’s research on racial and gender politics of contemporary Korean culture and performance has been published in a number of venues. She is the co-editor (with Emily Wilcox) of Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method (Routledge 2023) and Lateral’s CcRrrC (Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism Research Collective) East Asia section (2024) with Asako Masubuchi and Roberto Castillo.

In addition to her academic work, Yoon collaborates closely with artists as a researcher and translator. Most recently, she contributed to Brown (2022), the choreographic co-production between the Hong Kong-based City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) and Korean choreographer Kim Jaeduk, and to To Die as A Fish (2023), a play by siren eun young jung.

She taught Korean and East Asian performance and cultural studies courses at Northwestern University, Yale University, Lingnan University, and Ewha Womans University. She was a CEAS postdoctoral associate at Yale University and an assistant professor in Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.