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HeeJin Lee

  • Assistant Professor
  • Marianna Brown Dietrich Breakthrough Scholar
  • Chair of Korean Studies

I am a scholar of modern Korean literature with research interests in Cold War cultures and the politics of decolonization in comparative contexts. I am currently working on my first book manuscript, which traces how anticommunism in Korea during the early years of the Cold War shaped what we know about modern Korean literature today.  

    Education & Training

  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (2022) — Asian Languages & Cultures 
  • J.D., University of Iowa College of Law (2009) 
  • A.B., Harvard University (2005) — East Asian Studies and Government, Language Citations in Chinese and French 
Representative Publications

Introduction and translation of Ch’oe Chae-sŏ, “Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Birth of Art.” Criticism in Translation. PMLA 139, no. 2 (March 2024): 289-298.