Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Ireland, Amy, and Maya B. Kronic. Cute Accelerationism (Urbanomic, 2024).
Moeran, Brian, and Sharon Kinsella. “Cuties in Japan.” In Women, Media and Consumption in Japan, 220–54 (New York, NY: Routledge, 1995).
Ngai, Sianne. “The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde.” In Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, 53–109 (Harvard University Press, 2015).
Ngai, Sianne, ed. 2022. The Cute (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art). (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022).
요모타 이누히코. 2022. 가와이이 제국 일본. Translated by 장영권 (Seoul: 펜타그램, 2013).
Yano, Christine R. “Wink on Pink: Interpreting Japanese Cute as It Grabs the Global Headlines.” The Journal of Asian Studies 68, no. 3 (2009): 681–88.
Cai, Sophia. “Why I Love Being a BTS Fangirl in My 30s: ‘I’ve Seen Suga Perform Seven Times in Six Weeks.’” The Guardian, June 18, 2023.
《Melty Cutie Syndrome》exhibition press release, YPC SPACE, 서울시 중구 퇴계로 258 4층, June 11 - July 9, 2023.
FAR-NEAR website
Prof. Erica Kanesaka, “Cute Studies” course syllabus and course website
YPC Space, “귀여움 연구 모임, Oct - Nov 2025” (This is a link to the session I participated in. Check their program section for upcoming and previous sessions.)
CUTE, Somerset House (Embankment Galleries, South Wing), London, UK, January 25 – April 14, 2024.
《Melty Cutie Syndrome》, YPC SPACE, 서울시 중구 퇴계로 258 4층, June 11 - July 9, 2023.