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<p>This article examines how South Korean doctoral graduates in artificial intelligence-related fields construct and present academic subjectivities in the liminal textual space of thesis acknowledgments. Combining Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis with an Interest–Personnel–Analysis heuristic (“Dual-IPA”), we analyzed 29 open-access acknowledgments from a leading university in Seoul to trace the relational, affective, and material supports that make doctoral life possible. Acknowledgments serve as micro-narratives in which advisors become parental figures, laboratories transform into communities of practice, and family, faith, and funding provide the emotional and symbolic capital that sustains scholarly development. Subjectivity emerges as a negotiated assemblage of hierarchy, humility, and hope within Korea’s high-performance innovation regime. By treating acknowledgments as sites of self-writing, the study extends subjectivity studies into an under-explored genre of academic discourse, offering a transferable Dual-IPA protocol for researching identity work in competitive knowledge economies.</p>

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Academic subjectivities: early-career AI scholars’ narratives in South Korea

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    2026年5月21日

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  • Xiuli Chen,
  • Joohan Ryoo

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This article examines how South Korean doctoral graduates in artificial intelligence-related fields construct and present academic subjectivities in the liminal textual space of thesis acknowledgments. Combining Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis with an Interest–Personnel–Analysis heuristic (“Dual-IPA”), we analyzed 29 open-access acknowledgments from a leading university in Seoul to trace the relational, affective, and material supports that make doctoral life possible. Acknowledgments serve as micro-narratives in which advisors become parental figures, laboratories transform into communities of practice, and family, faith, and funding provide the emotional and symbolic capital that sustains scholarly development. Subjectivity emerges as a negotiated assemblage of hierarchy, humility, and hope within Korea’s high-performance innovation regime. By treating acknowledgments as sites of self-writing, the study extends subjectivity studies into an under-explored genre of academic discourse, offering a transferable Dual-IPA protocol for researching identity work in competitive knowledge economies.