Sookja Cho is an assistant professor of Korean at Arizona State University. Cho’s research fields include: Pre-modern Korean and Chinese literature and culture; Sino-Korean exchange and East Asian comparative literature; performance literature; and oral storytelling and folk literature. She is the author of two books: "Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea" (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and "The Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance, Loyalty and Romance" (Columbia University Press, 2018).