Beginning in August 2026, I will be based in Seoul, South Korea for one year, conducting archival research on Korean women's rhetorical and literary resistance during the early Japanese colonial period (1919–1925) as a grant-funded independent researcher affiliated with Seoul National University. Hosted by Dr. Eunha Na in the Interdisciplinary Program in Performing Arts, this project—Women of Resistance—follows two historical figures whose everyday acts of defiance shaped Korean literary and educational culture under occupation: a journalist who helped launch New Woman(신여성), one of Korea's first feminist magazines, and an elementary school teacher who secretly taught Korean language and history in defiance of colonial education policies that prohibited both. Working across the National Library of Korea, Ewha Women's University Archives, the Seodaemun Prison History Hall, and the Colonial Government-General Archives, I am building what I call a colonial-era archive-to-play method—extracting language, image, and action directly from primary documents, weaving them with minimal authorial connective tissue, and marking every inference explicitly in a scene-to-source appendix—a practice rooted in the feminist rhetorical recovery tradition of Royster and Kirsch and extending it into an archive shaped by censorship, surveillance, and deliberate colonial erasure. The project's public deliverable is a full-length play in English; its scholarly contribution is a methodology for reading women's voices in archives designed to suppress them, with implications for how translingual resistance and embodied literacy practice are taught and theorized in the composition classroom.