Youn Kim

Youn Kim obtained her PhD in music theory from Columbia University and is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include history of music theory, psychology of music, and the interrelationship between music theory and the science of the mind. She published articles and reviews on these subjects in Journal of Musicology, Psychology of Music, Journal of Musicological Research, Music and Letters, and Current Musicology, among others, and most recently, co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body. Her co-authored articles appeared in Scientific Reports and PLOS One. Kim is currently working on a monograph entitled ‘Body and Force in Music: Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology’ (Routledge, forthcoming) as a part of SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music series.