
- jinkyung@ucsd.edu
- (858) 534-3218
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Arts & Humanities Bldg (RWAC)
Room 238
Mail Code: 0410
Associate Professor
Jin-kyung Lee received her B. A. in English from Cornell University and her Ph. D. from UCLA in Comparative Literature. She regularly teaches courses on Korean literature, popular culture, and film as well as courses on literatures and cultures of global Korean diaspora. She also teaches courses on gender and sexuality (Korean feminisms, Korean masculinities, queer Korea) and on race and migration (multiethnic South Korea), and on environmentalism on the Korean peninsula.
Her first book, Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labor in South Korea (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) explored the intersections of South Korean militarism and the US empire, proletarianization of gender and race, and global Korean diaspora and global multiethnic diaspora in South Korea. She co-edited an anthology of Korean literature from the colonial period, Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013). Another co-edited book of literary works, Island Ablaze: the US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures (Cornell University Press, 2025) is forthcoming. She is currently working on a monograph on the colonial literary representations of capitalism and liberal ideas and their afterlives in contemporary South Korean popular culture.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Languages: Korean, English