Hyun graduated from Cornell University with a double major in Music and Government in 2005. Her dissertation examines Protestant choral music in 20th-century Korea using a mixture of critical, historical, and ethnographic methods. It explores the politics of musical style in this culture, especially tensions between Western classical and neo-traditional styles, in colonial and Cold War contexts. Broadly, she is interested in colonial, nationalist, exilic, and migrant music-making in 20th-century East Asia and the Asian diaspora in the U.S. and Latin America. Hyun has presented her work at AMS-Philadelphia (2011), AMS-San Francisco (2009), International Association for the Study of Popular Music, PERFORMA Conference on Performance Studies (Aveiro, Portugal), Asian Popular Music Conference (Princeton U), Music, Gender, and Globalization Conference (Cornell U), and Intersecting Histories Conference (Claremont College). Her recent paper topics include socialist composers’ coalitions in the Japanese empire, transnational hip hop in Seoul, and music and womanhood in East Asian colonial fiction. Outside of her main research area, she is interested in issues of embodiment in nineteen-century keyboard music and has presented on the performative elements of Chopin’s piano music. In her spare time, Hyun enjoys working on her L.A.-inspired fusion cooking, as well as salsa dancing and running. Once a month, she picks up challenging piano pieces from the music library and practices all day.