Crystal S. Anderson [#KCON18LA Special Guest]

Crystal S. Anderson (PhD) is Research Scholar of Cultural Studies at Longwood University (USA). Working within the fields of transnational American studies and global Asias, she is the author of Beyond the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (2013) as well as several publications on K-Pop. A former associate chief editor for helloK-Pop, a Korean media outlet, she currently manages KPK: K-Pop Kollective, the oldest and only aca-fansite for K-Pop, and K-PopCULTURE, a digital humanities project and writes about Asian popular culture on her blog, High Yellow.