Hannah Amaris Roh

Hi there! I’m a writer and critic navigating life in BC. My published writing has mostly covered Korean pop culture, which have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Bitch Media (clips below).* I was raised in South Korea and the US and now live in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. I’m grateful to be here. 

My first book was a monograph from my prior life as an academic: Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea: Specters of Western Metaphysics (Routledge, 2022). This project was based on my doctoral dissertation on Christianity and colonialism. I’m currently working on creative nonfiction projects, including a memoir-in-essays.

* Bitch Media has sadly ceased operations in May 2022. Although my clips from Bitch are no longer available online, you can view the PDF versions below (please excuse the formatting for the hyperlinks within the text).

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“Why Are We Stuck Here: ‘Squid Game,’ Trauma, and Repetition,” lareviewofbooks.org

“Face Value: How K-Beauty Repackaged Skincare as Self-Care,” bitchmedia.org

“White Lies: Unilever and L’Oréal Can’t Rebrand Their Way out of Colorism,” bitchmedia.org

“Phantom Pain: U.S. Imperialism Haunts Korea’s Cosmetic-Surgery Boom,” Bitch Magazine, Issue #89

“My ‘Minari’: On Asian American Immigrant Cinema,” lareviewofbooks.org

“Out of Network: What’s Really Behind ‘Health-Share’ Ministries?” bitchmedia.org

“Another Kind of Metaphysics: Learning to Let Go,” lareviewofbooks.org