- MA and Ph.D. in Korean Drama, Ewha Womans University
- MA in Theatre Studies, Arizona State UniversityMajor publications:
- Opening the 21st-century Korean Theater (2003)
- Aesthetics of Korean Theater: From Tradition to Postmodernism (1997)
- Post Modernism and Korean Literature (1991)
- Analysis of Korean Realism Theater (1989)
- A Medicine Seller, Agnes of God, and Madanggeuk: Korean Theater in a Turbulent Era (1989)