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Jin-kyung Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at University of California San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and her B.A. in English from Cornell University. Her teaching focuses on Korean literature, popular culture, film, and courses addressing gender and sexuality, race and migration, and environmentalism in the context of the Korean peninsula. Lee has made significant contributions to academic discourse with her book, 'Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labor in South Korea,' which examines the intersections of militarism, gender, and race within the context of South Korea's global diaspora. She co-edited works such as 'Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire' and 'Island Ablaze: Empire North South Korean Literatures.' Currently, she is engaged in writing a monograph that explores colonial literary representations of capitalism and the cultural afterlives in contemporary South Korea.
University of California San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Teaches courses on Korean literature and popular culture, along with gender and sexuality studies.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).