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Joo Lee
Lecturer I in Asian Languages and Cultures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 American Culture (University of Michigan)
About
Joo Young Lee is a cultural historian of American and Korean media and cultures and a comparative ethnic and area studies scholar of Asian/Pacific Islander American, Korean, African American, and mixed-race studies. Lee received her PhD in American culture and Asian/Pacific Islander American studies with an African American & Diasporic studies certificate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently a lecturer I at the U-M.
Current Work
Her current project, "Transnational Representations of Mixed-Race Black Koreans in American and Korean Cultures," traces the cultural history of Black Koreans as portrayed in literary, photographic, filmic, televisual, musical, and performative platforms since 1947. Her expansive repository of underexplored archival materials, composed of legal documents, government correspondence, and cultural products from the United States and South Korea, reveals changing notions of Americanness, Blackness, and Koreanness, problematizing racial categories and the boundaries of a single nation in a global age.
Research Area Keyword(s)
African American studies, Asian/Pacific Islander American studies, critical media and cultural studies, Cultural history, Korean studies