Ji-Eun Lee

Ji-Eun Lee is an Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Language and the Head of the Korean Section at Washington University in St Loius. Lee's research and teaching focus on Korean literature and civilization. She is working on two writing projects: a book-length study on memory and space in post-Cold War Korean literature; and domesticity and travels by Colonial Korean woman writers. As a scholar of Korean literature with a comparative background, Lee’s overall research interest covers from the nineteenth century to contemporary times, with topics including women and gender, print culture and book history, memory and post-memory, and travel and domesticity. She uses literary, cinematic, visual, and journalistic materials, and engages both historical approaches and close readings of primary sources to examine production of textual and visual arts in Korea, and to reexamine them in a transnational context. She is the author of Women Pre-Scripted: Forging Modern Roles through Korean Print (University of Hawaii Press, 2015), a monograph on conflicting discourses on modern womanhood from the 1890s to the 1930s. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught and worked at the University of Toronto, Dartmouth College, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Minnesota.