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Jin-kyung LEE - Ph.D. (UCLA)

Primary Office: Contact Department
Primary Phone: Contact Department
Winter 2010 Office Hours : TTh 3:20-4:45
Winter 2010 Teaching Schedule:
Course: LTEA 140 Time: TuTh 1400-1520 Location: WLH 2114
Course: LTKO 100 Time: TuTh 1700-1820 Location: SOLIS 111
Email: jinkyung@ucsd.edu

Associate Professor - Korean and Comparative Literature

Modern Korean Literature; Gender Studies; Korean Diasporic Cultures

Jin-kyung Lee received her B. A. from Cornell University and her Ph. D. from UCLA in Comparative Literature. Her research interests include nationalist culture and politics of the colonial era, militarism and development in post-colonial South Korea, representations of gender and ethnicity, Asian labor migration in South Korea and Korean diaspora.

Selected Publications:

ProletarianizingSexuality and Race: Transnational Labors of South Korea since 1965  (Forthcoming,Fall 2009, University of Minnesota Press)

"SurrogateMilitary, Subimperialism, and Masculinity: South Korea in the Vietnam War,1965-1973" (Forthcoming, 2009, positions:east asia cultures critique)

"Ethnicity,(Sub)Empire, and Transnational Labor: Asian Migrant Workers in SouthKorea and South Korean Immigrants in the US," [Minjok, hawijegukjuui,ch’ogukgajok nodong: hangukui ijunodongjadulgwa migukui hangukiminjadul] Hwanghae Munhwa (Hwanghae Culture), (Inch’on, SouthKorea: Saeol Cultural Foundation), Vol. 50(Spring 2006)

"Performative Ethnicities: Class and Culturein 1930s Colonial Korea," Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, (Seoul: KyujanggakInstitute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University),19:1 (December 2006)

"Immigrant/Migrant Labor and KoreanDiaspora in the Age of Subimperialism: Pak Pom-sin’s Namaste" [Hawijegukjuui sidaeui chaehan ijunodongjawa hangukinuiisan: Pak Pom-sinui Namaste] Munhak Tongne (Literature World), (Seoul: MunhakdongnePublishing Co.), Vol. 48 (Fall, 2006)

"NationalHistory and Domestic Spaces: Secret Lives of Girls and Women in 1950sSouth Korea in O Chong-hui’s ‘The Garden of Childhood’ and ‘The ChineseStreet.’"  TheJournal of Korean Studies, 9:1 (Fall 2005)

"SovereignAesthetics, Disciplining Emotion and Racial Rehabilitation in Colonial Korea,1910-1922."  Acta Koreana, 8:1 (Winter 2005)

"Autonomous Aesthetics and Autonomous Subjectivity: Construction ofModern Literature as a Site of Social Reforms and Nation-Building inColonial Korea, 1915-1925."  Ph.D. diss., University of California, LosAngeles, 2000.