| Jin LEE
- Ph.D. (UCLA)
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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: Proletarianizing Sexuality and Race: Transnational Labors of South Korea since 1965 (Forthcoming, Fall 2009, University of Minnesota Press) “Surrogate Military, 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 South Korea and South Korean Immigrants in the US,” [Minjok, hawijegukjuŭi, ch’ogukgajŏk nodong: hangukŭi ijunodongjadŭlgwa migukŭi hanguk iminjadŭl] Hwanghae Munhwa (Hwanghae Culture), (Inch’ŏn, South Korea: Saeŏl Cultural Foundation), Vol. 50 (Spring 2006) “Performative Ethnicities: Class and Culture in 1930s Colonial Korea,” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, (Seoul: Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University), 19:1 (December 2006) “Immigrant/Migrant Labor and Korean Diaspora in the Age of Subimperialism: Pak Pŏm-sin’s Namaste” [Hawijegukjuŭi sidaeŭi chaehan ijunodongjawa hangukinŭi isan: Pak Pŏm-sinŭi Namaste] Munhak Tongne (Literature World), (Seoul: Munhakdongne Publishing Co.), Vol. 48 (Fall, 2006) “National History and Domestic Spaces: Secret Lives of Girls and Women in 1950s South Korea in O Chŏng-hŭi’s ‘The Garden of Childhood’ and ‘The Chinese Street.’” The Journal of Korean Studies, 9:1 (Fall 2005) “Sovereign Aesthetics, Disciplining Emotion and Racial Rehabilitation in Colonial Korea, 1910-1922.” Acta Koreana, 8:1 (Winter 2005) |