Dr. Jinhee Lee
Associate Prof. of History, Coordinator of Asian Studies
Office: 1605 - Coleman Hall
Phone: 217-581-6065
Email: jlee@eiu.edu
http://www.eiu.edu/asian_studies/personnel.php?id=jlee
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Japanese history and culture, Korean history and culture, Koreans in Japan, Imperialism and colonialism, Decolonization and postcolonialism, Empire studies and imperial legacies in Asia, Historical trauma and knowledge production, Social impact of natural disaster, Gendered experiences of modernity, Collective violence and collective memory, Critical globalism and transnationalism
Education
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
A.M. in Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. in Japanese, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea
About Me
Growing up in Korea with three sisters, Prof. Lee realized that memories and interpretations of the seemingly
shared past could vary dramatically even within a family. As a natural extension of her interest in such dynamic process of producing historical knowledge, Dr. Lee's current projects examine the competing narratives of collective violence in the early twentieth-century Japanese empire. Committed to generating cross-disciplinary methodological innovation in the studies of empire, violence, imperialism, and colonialism, Prof. Lee incorporates a variety of historical texts such as rumors, testimonies, paintings, children's writings, and commemorations in her research and teaching in and beyond the boundaries of historical archives. She has written and translated books, booklets, articles, book/film reviews, and exhibition brochures in Japanese, Korean and English. Dr. Lee got her inter-disciplinary training in linguistics, anthropology, area studies and history at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, S. Korea), Drexel University (PA), University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) and University of Illinois. Prior to joining EIU, she has taught Asian history and cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Fort Hays State University.
Research Areas
Japanese empire; colonial Korea; imperial legacies and postcoloniality in Japan and Korea; Koreans in Japan; colonial archives and historical knowledge production; social impact of disaster; gendered experiences of modernity; collective violence; critical globalism; transnationalism
Language Proficiency
Korean (native; publications in Korean)
Japanese (near native; classical Japanese; publications in Japanese)
Chinese (rudimentary in Mandarin; training in classical Chinese)
Spanish (rudimentary)
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