Education
Ph.D., East Asian Studies (Feminist Emphasis) – June 2022
University of California Irvine, School of Humanities, Irvine
Advisor Dr. Chungmoo Choi
Book (working title): Nonsynchronic Neo-Nomadic Feminism: Activism, Surveillance, and Digital Technologies in South Korea
B.A., Asian Studies, minor in Anthropology (cum laude) – May 2013
Temple University, School of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Professional Employment
Research Development Coordinator, UC Irvine, Humanities Center – 2023-present
The Research Development Coordinator supports faculty, graduate students, and administrators in the School of Humanities (SOH) in developing high impact and quality proposals for submission to federal agencies and charitable foundations, research funding opportunities, and support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with fellowship and grant applications.
Lecturer, California State University, Dominguez Hills – 2023-present
Department of Women’s Studies
Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach – 2022-present
Department of Women’s Studies
Publications
Schwartz, Anat. “Cloud Backlash: Digital Sex Crimes and Anti-Feminism in South Korea.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice (under review).
Schwartz, Anat. “Surveilled Bodies: Surveillance and Safety in South Korean Feminist Activist Spaces.” Korean Studies Journal Special Section: Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary South Korean Feminisms, edited by Soyi Kim and Anat Schwartz (under review, 2024).
Schwartz, Anat. “Acceptable Activism: The History of the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement and the Contemporary #MeToo Protests in South Korea.” In The Other #MeToos, edited by Iqra Shagufta Cheema(forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2024).
Sok, Sarah Y. and Anat Schwartz. ““We are Korean People and We Must Speak Korean Well:” Parental Involvement in Five Korean American Families with Successful Heritage Language Maintenance.” In Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (November 2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.2008947.
Kim, Gooyong and Anat Schwartz. “Eros Effects as Emergency Politics: Empathy, Agency, and Network in South Korea’s Sewol Ferry Disaster.” In Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution, edited by Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson, 191-211. New York: SUNY Press, 2017.
Fellowships & Grants
| Korea Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship | $85,860 | 2019-2020 2020-2021 |
| UC Irvine Humanities Out There Summer Internship | $5,000 | 2020 |
| UC Irvine Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Graduate Fellow | $5,000 | 2020 |
| Fulbright Junior Research Scholarship | $38,448 | 2018-2019 |
| UC Irvine Humanities Center, Graduate Student Research Grant | $800 | 2019 |
| The Academy of Korean Studies Research Fellowship | $9,526 | 2018 |
| UC Irvine Center for Critical Korean Studies Language Fellowship | $3,000 | 2018 |
| UC Irvine Graduate Student Research and Travel Award | $750 | 2018 |
| Korea Foundation’s Korean Language Training Fellowship | $14,400 | 2015-2016 |
| UC Irvine’s Humanities Collective’s Collaborative Grant with support from the Department of East Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies program | $3,000 | 2014 |
| UC Irvine’s Associated Graduate Students Travel Grant, Spring | $1,000 | 2014, 2018 |
| Regents’ Fellowship for Graduate studies UC Irvine | $51,151 | 2013-2014 |
Invited Talks
Schwartz, Anat. (November 29, 2022). Transnational Feminism. Invited talk at California State University Dominguez Hills, Department of Women’s Studies.
Schwartz, Anat. (October 6, 2022). Transnational South Korean Feminism. Invited talk at California State University Long Beach, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Schwartz, Anat. (September 13, 2022). Feminist Research Methods. Invited talk at California State University Long Beach, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Schwartz, Anat. (November 29, 2021). South Korean Feminist Activism & Social Media. Invited talk at California State University Long Beach Global Feminisms Course.
Schwartz, Anat. (October 5, 2021). Feminist Research Methods. Invited talk at California State University Long Beach, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies 301 Course.
Schwartz, Anat. (August 4, 2021). Feminism, K-Pop, and the #Me Too Movement in South Korea. Invited talk at National Consortium for Teaching About Asia hosted by the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University.
Conference Paper Presentations
Schwartz, Anat. (February 18, 2023). The Rise of Anti-Feminist Backlash and Gender Politics in South Korea. Roundtable organizer and moderator at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2023 Annual Conference, virtual.
Schwartz, Anat. (November 10-13, 2022). Resisting from the Outside: South Korean Regional Feminism. Paper presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Minneapolis, MN.
Schwartz, Anat. (March 27, 2022). Surveilled Bodies: Surveillance and Safety in South Korean Feminist Activist Spaces. Paper presentation at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2022 Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI.
Schwartz, Anat. (October 15, 2021). Biological Boundaries: Transnational TERF Movements and the South Korean Feminist Movement. Paper presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), virtual conference.
Schwartz, Anat. (March 21-26, 2021). Rewriting a Korean Feminist History: Gender, Sexuality, and Media in Motion Rewriting a Korean Feminist History: Gender, Sexuality, and Media in Motion. Panel Organizer at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), virtual conference.
Schwartz, Anat. (January 9-12, 2020). #With You: The History of the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement and the Contemporary #MeToo Protests in South Korea. Paper presentation at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2020 conference, Seattle, WA.
Schwartz, Anat. (November 14-19, 2019). Full-Time Feminists and Breaking the Corset: Feminist Divisions of Labor in Contemporary Korean Feminist Communities. Paper presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 2019 conference, San Francisco, CA.
Schwartz, Anat. (July 1-4, 2019). Uncomfortable Protests: Intimate Class Distinctions in Contemporary Korean Feminist Communities. Paper presentation at the Association for Asian Studies in Asia 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
Schwartz, Anat. (August 4, 2016). Public Squares, Carnivals and Civil Society: Boundaries of Legibility and Public Anxiety at Gwanghwamun Plaza. Paper presented at The 11th International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and Culture, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Schwartz, Anat. (April 23-24, 2015). Hegemonic Masculinity and Motherhood in South Korea: The Sewol Incident as a “Women’s Issue.” Paper presented at UCLA’s 25th Thinking Gender Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Teaching Experience
Lecturer, California State University Dominguez Hills – 2023-present
Courses: Transnational Feminism, Feminist Theories
Lecturer, California State University Long Beach – 2022-present
Courses: The Body, Sex, and Race; Pop Culture: Seeing Sex & Gender; Introduction to Queer Studies; Feminist Theory; Queering Gender
Lecturer, University of California Irvine – Summer 2020
Course: Gender & Sexuality in South Korea
Teaching Assistant, University of California Irvine – 2014-2020
Courses: Gender & Power; Korean Failures; Korean Language Fundamentals 1A-1C; Japan, the World, the Planet; Korean Popular Culture & the Korean Wave; Stories from Korea
Pedagogical Experience & Certifications
Accelerating Student Success and Equity in Teaching (ASSET) Workshop – 2023
California State University, Long Beach
Pre-Professor Program – 2022
California State University, Dominguez Hills
The PREPP program aims to increase the pipeline of highly competitive individuals from diverse backgrounds who apply for faculty positions at CSU campuses, and to prepare fellows for CSU faculty positions. CSU Dominguez Hills mentors: Dr. Philip Vieira and co-mentor, Dr. Shari Berkowitz.
California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program – 2021-2022
California State University, Long Beach
Fellow in the department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, at California State University Long Beach under the supervision of Assistant Professor Azza Basarudin. The CDIP fellowship provides structure for graduate students interested in pursuing future tenure-track faculty opportunities in the California State University system
Graduate Fellow – 2020-2021
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation UC Irvine
Certificate in the Summer Remote Teaching Institute for Grads & Postdocs – 2020
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, UC Irvine
Certificate in Mentoring Excellence – 2020
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, UC Irvine
Certificate in Course Design – 2017
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, UC Irvine
Research Experience
Graduate Student Researcher – 2021-2022
School of Humanities, UC Irvine
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Assessment Graduate Student Researcher under joint supervision by Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Equity Advisor for the School of Humanities and Special Assistant to the Humanities Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Dr. Amanda Jeanne Swain, Executive Director of the Humanities Center.
Graduate Student Researcher – Summer 2021
Program in Global Languages & Communications, UC Irvine
Summer research assistantship with the program in Global Languages & Communications at the UC Irvine School of Humanities. Worked with program Director, Dr. Jerry Won Lee, and affiliated faculty on research projects related to applied linguistic and Korean heritage language.
Graduate Student Researcher – Summer 2021
School of Humanities, UC Irvine
Higher Education Fellow through the UC Irvine Humanities Out There program. Worked under Amanda Swain, the Executive Direction for UC Irvine’s Humanities Center, on several projects tracking faculty grant outcomes through the Humanities Center, using qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Graduate Student Researcher – Summer 2020
School of Humanities, UC Irvine
Project manager for the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association’s inaugural Viet Book Fest through UC Irvine’s Humanities Out There summer fellowship. Designed and implemented a month-long virtual event series with prolific Vietnamese American authors and artists.
Dissertation Fieldwork – 2018-2019
South Korea
Conducted fieldwork in South Korea for 16 months as a junior research fellow at the Academy of Korean Studies (8/2018-1/2019) and a Fulbright research grantee (1/2019-11/2019). Partial findings from this fieldwork will be published in the anthology The Other #MeToos (under review).
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Feminist Media Studies
National Women’s Studies Association
Journal of Lesbian Studies
East Asia Forum Quarterly
TransScripts – the interdisciplinary online graduate student journal based at the University of California, Irvine, 2017 – 2019
Departmental/University Service
California State University, Long Beach
2023 – Organized a WGSS Student Symposium for students enrolled in five courses in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; held a queer zine-making workshop for WGSS majors and minors; mentored one international undergraduate student, Andre Faria Serra, by serving as faculty mentor on their thesis research project, and co-organized a gender studies graduate school panel with WGSS faculty, Dr. Azza Basarudin.
2022 – Mentored one undergraduate student, Isabell Lux, by serving as faculty mentor on their senior thesis research project, and organized a public exhibition of collaborative undergraduate student work in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies’ course Feminist Theory.
2021 -Organized a graduate school information panel with four invited alumni affiliated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department.
University of California, Irvine
2014 – Organizer, Media in Translation: A Graduate Workshop on Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
2014-2017 – Organizer, Department of East Asian Studies’ Graduate Student Film Series
Community Involvement/Service
Orange County Queer History Project 2023-present
2023 – Present – Chief Financial Officer for The Orange County Queer History Project (OCQHP), a grassroots digital humanities nonprofit dedicated to collecting, preserving, and presenting the history of queer, LGBTQIA+, and gender and sexual-nonconforming groups in Orange County, California.
University of California, Irvine
2020 – Project Manager with the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association through UC Irvine’s Humanities Out There program.
2020 – Organizational Leadership and Communications Program Courses
Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, Seoul
2018-2019 – Volunteer Research Intern
2019 Korea Queer Film Festival, Seoul
2018-2019 – Volunteer Program Coordinator
Languages
Korean: Advanced
Hebrew: Fluent
Professional Memberships
Association for Asian Studies
Association for Asian American Studies
National Women’s Studies Association
Modern Language Association, 2019-2021