Publications
Academic Research & Recent Publications
My chapter on idol Lee Taemin and his work with religious iconography and transgressive sexual aesthetics is featured in Part 1 of this volume, due for publication by Bloomsbury in September 2026.
The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling
in K-Pop
Edited by Nicholas E. Miller
Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather than a discrete musical genre.
An international and interdisciplinary roster of contributors employ case studies examining a number of artists including BTS, Taemin, Sunmi, and KARD, among others, with topics ranging from idol universes and solo projects to fandom labor and scandal. These varied cases demonstrate how questions of race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and labor are embedded within the everyday mechanics of storytelling itself. The practices of transmedia world building around K-pop idols – through which both controversy and solidarity can shape discourses around idols and their careers – are re-understood as elements that can threaten to break the illusion of community.