Areas of Interest
- Digital media
- Service Labour
- Labour transformation
- Korean Media
- Artificial Intelligence
- Late Capitalism
- Digital Capitalism
Biography
Eilís Price-Peyroux (She/Her) is a 2nd-year PhD student at the University of Toronto in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her work focuses on digital media, labour, and capitalism in South Korea from the early 2000s onwards. Her central inquiry revolves around the intersections between aesthetics and labour practices, which manifest through the digital images of mundane spaces such as cafes, convenience stores, and shopping malls. Her primary research topics include digital capitalism, labour transformation, the digital body, and digital space. More recently, she has begun researching AI-generated content and pedagogy in the age of AI.
Recipient of Korea Foundation language training fellowship
Recipient of the “Outstanding Written Research Project ” award for BA dissertation “Flippancy: the Ill-mannered Aesthetic of the Inter-war Period”.