Professor,
Asian American Studies
She/Her/Hers
Julia H. Lee is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to that appointment, Julia is core faculty in the PhD Program in Culture and Theory and the Program in Global Languages and Communications as well as affiliated faculty in the Department of English and the Center for Critical Korean Studies. She is currently a co-director of the UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster. She is the author of three books: Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 (New York University Press, 2011), Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston (University of South Carolina Press, 2018), and The Racial Railroad (New York University Press, 2022). With Professor Josephine Lee, she is co-editor of Asian American Literature in Transition, 1850-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022. Her current research examines the emergence of the contemporary American neo-frontier narrative. Courses she has taught include the Asian American bildungsroman, the Asian American “West,” race and urban space, K-Pop, Korean American experience, and Asian American communities.
Email: juliahl1@uci.edu
Website: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5997
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