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Seung-hoon Jeong is an Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts at California State University, Long Beach. A former film critic in South Korea, he joined ������ after serving as an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has held visiting professorships at Columbia University and several Korean universities. He has primarily developed film theory as interface theory and a new formulation of global cinema through the concepts of abjection, catastrophe, network, and atopia, drawing on philosophical methodologies from ontology, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, biopolitics, and ethics. He has also explored diverse directors, including Werner Herzog, Peter Greenaway, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Bong Joon-ho, as well as various topics such as animal films, female domination, Korean cinema, and the Netflix culture. Jeong received Korea’s Cine21 Film Criticism Award (2003), the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award (2012), and ������’s Early Career Academic Excellence Award (2025). He is the author of Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory after New Media (Routledge, 2013) and Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2023). He also co-edited The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Thomas Elsaesser’s The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology (Routledge, 2021), guest-edited the special issue of Studies in the Humanities titled “Global East Asian Cinema: Abjection and Agency” (2019), and co-translated Jacques Derrida’s Acts of Literature into Korean (Moonji, 2013). He is currently writing Global Korean Cinema: From Unfinished Modern Nation Projects to Postpolitical Self-Contradictions and co-editing Theorizing Cinema’s Multiple Globalizations.