Associate Professor Roald Maliangkaij
Areas of expertise
- Consumption And Everyday Life 200203
- Musicology And Ethnomusicology 190409
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
Biography
Fascinated by the mechanics of cultural policy and the convergence of major cultural phenomena, Roald analyses cultural industries, performance and consumption in Korea from the early twentieth century to the present. He currently serves as President of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA), and is a member of the editorial board of Korean Studies (Univ. of Hawai`i), The Review of Korean Studies (AKS), and the Journal for Korean and Asian Arts (Korean National University of Arts).
Career highlights
Convener, Master of Asian and Pacific Studies (2019-2020); Director, Korea Institute (2017–2019); School DA and Deputy Director HDR (2016–2017); Head, CHL Dept of East Asian Studies (2015–2017); KSAA board member (since 2012); Program Director, Master's in Contemporary Asian Studies (University of Amsterdam, 2005); Branch Head, International Institute of Asian Studies (University of Leiden, 2005); Program Coordinator, SEPHIS, International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, 2004-2005); Food Critic, Time Out (1995-2000).
Research awards
- Korean Ministry of Education award for excellence in Korean studies — for his co-edited volume K-pop: The international rise of the Korean music industry, in Dec. 2016.
Teaching awards/nominations
- Nominated for College Teaching Award for Excellence in Supervision, in 2017.
- Nominated for “Wattle Oscar” for Modern Korean 2, in 2014.
- ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, in 2012.
- “Wattle Oscar” for the online learning environment for Modern Korean 1, in 2011.
- Nominated for College Teaching Award across 6 categories, incl. Excellence in Supervision, in 2011.
- Nominated for College Teaching Award across 2 categories, in 2010.
Researcher's projects
- Accelerating Movements: The Introduction of Modern Time Management in Japanese Colonies. This project investigates the Japanese government's efforts to promote modern timekeeping regimes in its former colonies Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria. Like other colonial powers, the Japanese regarded colonial subjects as being behind the times and lazy. The Western calendar and associated time-keeping standards represented modernity; by promising cultural progress and increased productivity, their introduction helped justify annexation and became a priority for businesses that relied on effective time management. How did the Japanese government promote the notion of punctuality in Korea and its other colonies, and how did it affect the colonial experience?
Past student projects
- Catherine Hallett (PhD, 2020) - "Deconstructing Hierarchy and Power Relations in the Traditional Performing Arts of Japan: The Music of Kamigata Rakugo."
- Benny Tong (PhD, 2019) - "Singing in Life's Twilight: Serious Karaoke as Everyday Aging Practice in Urban Japan."
- Meghan Downes (PhD, 2016) - "(Un)toward Progress: Stories of Modernity and Development in Indonesian Film and Fiction."
Publications
- Maliangkaij, R 2020, 'Colonial Timekeeping: Bringing Koreans Up to Speed', in Rumi Sakamoto and Stephen Epstein (eds.), Popular Culture and Transformation of Japan-Korea Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 19–33.
- Maliangkaij, R 2020, 'Not a Habitus for the Have-Nots: The Walker Hill Shows, 1962–2002', in Keith Howard, Catherine Ingram (eds.), Presence through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia, India: Routledge, pp. 148–61.
- Maliangkaij, R 2019, 'Book review: Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective', Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 123–30.
- Maliangkaij, R 2019, 'Thinking Outside the Canvas: The Lost Art of Cinema Billboards in South Korea and India', in S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta and Robert Ji-Song Ku (eds.), Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea, Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, pp. 303–20.
- Maliangkaij, R 2019, 'Book Review: The Korean Wave: Evolution, Fandom, and Transnationality', Korean Studies, vol. 43, pp. 201–3.
- Maliangkaij, R 2018, 'Koreans Got Talent: Auditioning for U.S. Army Gigs in Korea', Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 59–79.
- Maliangkaij, R 2018, 'Book Review: New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media', The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 1120–1.
- Maliangkaij, R 2017, Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksongs, Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
- Maliangkaij, R 2017, 'K-pop syncs to the politics of protest', Asian Currents, 24 March.
- Maliangkaij, R 2015, 'An alternative to the Korean Wave', Artlink, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 16–19.
- Maliangkaij, R 2015, 'Embedding Nostalgia: The Political Appropriation of Foreign Comic Book Superheroes in Korea', Situations, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 49–65.
- Maliangkaij, R, ed., 2015, 'Pulp Recycling,' special issue of Situations, vol. 8, no. 2.
- Maliangkaij, R 2015, 'Uniformity and Non-conformism: The Packaging of Korean Girl Groups', in S Lee, AM Nornes (ed.), Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, pp. 90–107.
- Maliangkaij, R 2015, 'The Faux Cosmopolitanism of Korea's Early Visitors: Albums That Picture the Home Audience', The Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 69–84.
- Maliangkaij, R 2014, 'Book review: Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity', Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 462–5.
- Choi, J & Maliangkaij, R 2014, 'Introduction: Why fandom matters to the international rise of K-pop', in JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay (ed.), K-pop: The international rise of the Korean music industry, Oxfordshire: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 1–18.
- Choi, J & Maliangkaij, R, eds, 2014, K-pop: The international rise of the Korean music industry, Oxfordshire: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- Maliangkaij, R & Song, G 2014, 'A sound wave of effeminacy: K-pop and the male beauty ideal in China', in JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay (ed.), K-pop: The international rise of the Korean music industry, Oxfordshire: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 164–77.
- Maliangkaij, R 2014, 'Same look through different eyes: Korea's history of uniform pop music acts', in JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay (ed.), K-pop: The international rise of the Korean music industry, Oxfordshire: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 19–34.
- Maliangkaij, R 2014, 'Defining Qualities: The Socio-Political Significance of K-pop Collections', Korean Histories, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3–14.
- Maliangkaij, R 2014, 'The Popularity of Individualism: The Seo Taiji Phenomenon in the 1990s', in Kyung Hyun Kim & Youngmin Choe (ed.), The Korean Popular Culture Reader, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 296–313.
- Maliangkaij, R 2013, 'There is No Amen in Shaman: Traditional Music Preservation and Christianity in South Korea', Asian Music, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 77–97.
- Maliangkaij, R 2013, 'Catering to the Female Gaze: The Semiotics of Masculinity in Korean Advertising', Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, vol. 7, Winter 2013/2014, pp. 43–61.
- Maliangkaij, R 2012, 'A Tradition of Adaptation: Preserving the Ritual for Paebaengi', in Keith Howard (ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 141–59.
- Maliangkaij, R 2012, 'Book Review: Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance', Asian Studies Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 137–9.
- Maliangkaij, R 2012, 'Book Review: In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch'angguk', Asian Studies Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 136–7.
- Maliangkaij, R 2012, 'Hallyu, Hype, and the Humanities: The Impact of the Korean Wave on Korean Studies', Philippine Korean Studies Symposium 2012, ed. University of the Philippines, Quezon City Philippines, pp. 32–9.
- Maliangkaij, R 2012, 'True Beauty is Superficial: Comparing the Ideal of Male Beauty in China and Kore', Is a Trans-Asia Possible: Re-imaging East Asia as a Cultural Crossroads. Yonsei University Press, Seoul, pp. 21–28.
- Maliangkaij, R 2011, 'Dirt, Noise, and Naughtiness: Cinema and the Working Class During Korea's Silent Film Era', Asian Ethnology, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 1–31.
- Maliangkaij, R 2011, 'Koreans Performing for Foreign Troops: The Occidentalism of the C.M.C and K.P.K.', East Asian History, vol. 37, pp. 59–72.
- Maliangkaij, R 2011, 'The Power of Representation: Korean Movie Narrators and Authority', Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 213–30.
- Maliangkaij, R 2010, "The Effeminacy of Male Beauty in Korea", IIAS Newsletter, vol. 55 (Autumn/Winter), pp. 6–7.
- Maliangkaij, R 2010, 'Meaningful Rituals are Rooted in Place', Wolgan chungang [Monthly central], vol. 2010, pp. 284–8.
- Maliangkaij, R 2010, 'New Symbolism and Retail Therapy: Advertising Novelties in Korea's Colonial Period', East Asian History, vol. 36, pp. 29–54.
- Maliangkaij, R 2010, "Keep Your Enemies Closer: Protecting Korea's Pop Culture in China", Korean Histories, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 34–44.
- Maliangkaij, R 2010, "Creating a Different Wave: Animating a Market for Korean Animation", in Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita (ed.), Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia. Melbourne: Monash University Press, pp. 11.1–11.9.
- Maliangkaij, R 2009, 'Book Review: Keith Howard, Chaesuk Lee and Nicholas Casswell, Korean Kayagum Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 68–70.
- Maliangkaij, R 2008, "Korean Pop Culture's Growing Challenges", in The Korea Herald (ed.), Insight into Korean Series 5: Korean Wave. Seoul: Jimoondang International, pp. 213–21.
- Maliangkaij, R 2008, "Konjon kayo: South Korea's Propaganda Pop", in J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares (eds.), Korea: The Past and the Present, Vol. 1. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, pp. 171–82.
- Maliangkaij, R 2008, 'Book Review: Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea's East Coast Hereditary Shamans', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 388–9.
- Maliangkaij, R 2008, 'Book Review: P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance', Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 160–2.
- Maliangkaij, R 2008, "New Symbolism and Retail Therapy: Advertising Novelties in Korea's Colonial Period", East Asian History, vol. 36, pp. 29–54.
- Maliangkaij, R 2008, "Staging Korean Traditional Performing Arts Abroad: Important Intangible Intercultural Performance Issues", Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 49–68.
- Maliangkaij, R 2007, "Them Pig Feet: Anti Japanese Folksongs in Korea", in Remco E Breuker (ed.), Korea in the Middle: Korean Studies and Area Studies: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven. Leiden: CNWS Publications, pp. 157–85.
- Maliangkaij, R 2007, "Their Masters' Voice: Korean Traditional Music SPs under Japanese Colonial Rule", The World of Music, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 53–74.
- Maliangkaij, R 2006, 'Book Review: Korea Bug', Acta Koreana, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 183–5.
- Maliangkaij, R 2006, "When the Korean Wave Ripples", IIAS Newsletter, vol. 42 (Autumn), p. 15.
- Maliangkaij, R 2006, "Korean Music", in Deshmitra and S.L. Kaeley (ed.), The World and its Peoples (encyclopaedia). London: The Brown Reference Group.
- Maliangkaij, R 2006, "Pop for Progress: Censorship and South Korea's Propaganda Songs", in Keith Howard (ed.), Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. UK: Global Oriental, pp. 48–61.
- Maliangkaij, R 2006, "Supporting Our Boys: American Military Entertainment and Korean Pop Music in the 1950s and Early-1960s", in Keith Howard (ed.), Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. UK: Global Oriental, pp. 21–33.
- Maliangkaij, R 2005, "Classifying Performances: The Art of Korean Film Narrators", Image & Narrative: online magazine of the visual narrative, vol. 10 (March), p. 15.
- Maliangkaij, R 2005, "Korean Cinema's Relationship with Japanese Film: Moving Images Back and Forth", Dejima Film Festival Magazine. Amsterdam: Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis, June, pp. 15–6.
- Maliangkaij, R 2004, "Choosing the right folk: the appointment of 'human cultural properties", in Korea', in Ian Russell and David Atkinson (ed.), Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation. Scotland: University of Aberdeen, pp. 95–107.
- Maliangkaij, R 2004, 'Book Review: Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing', Acta Koreana, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 201–5.
- Maliangkaij, R 2004, "Creative Iconography: Selling Korean Traditional Music Abroad", International Conference on Korean Studies, ed. Kim Tschung-Sun and Sem Vermeersch, Keimyung Univ., pp. 115–121.
- Maliangkaij, R (with De Ceuster, K) 2003, "The Fashionability of Han", in Michel Demeuldre (ed.), Sentiments doux-amers dans les musiques du monde. Paris: l'Harmattan, pp. 201–12.
- Maliangkaij, R 2003, 'Book Review: Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond', Acta Koreana, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 167–71.
- Maliangkaij, R 2003, 'Book Review: The Making of a Korean National Cinema', Acta Koreana, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 171–6.
- Maliangkaij, R 2003, 'Book Review: Contemporary Korean Cinema', IIAS Newsletter, vol. 30 (March), p. 30.
- Maliangkaij, R 2002, "The Revival of Folksongs in South Korea: The Case of Tondollari", Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 223–45.
- Maliangkaij, R 2001, "Healthy Songs for the People", IIAS Newsletter, vol. 25 (Dec.), p. 15.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Korea Update 2019 (Primary Investigator)
- Engaging Ageing: Musical Pastime Among the Elderly in Korea and Other Parts of Asia (Primary Investigator)
- ANU Korean language extension courses (Primary Investigator)
- 2011 Overseas Leading University Program for Korean Studies (Secondary Investigator)