About
Ji Eun Lee (이지은) is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University (est. 1398) in Seoul, South Korea. Her first book in progress, tentatively titled “Walking London: Urban Gaits of the British Novel,” reads the rise of the novel alongside the city’s emergence, analyzing the way in which pedestrian gaits are shaped by the urban environment and, in turn, shape the novel’s form. She contributed eco-justice lesson plans on colonial landscapes of Victorian Africa to “Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.” Recently, she also started another project, tentatively titled “Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea,” which will decenter and relocate Victorian studies in a global context. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Victorian Literature and Culture, among others.
Email: jieunclee(at)skku.edu & jieunclee(at)ucla.edu Education
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.A. in English, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.A. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Summa Cum Laude; Graduated with Highest GPA in the English Department; and Teaching Certification
Exchange Student, English, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Myungduk Foreign Language High School, Seoul, South Korea Publications
“Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 51, no. 1, 2023, pp. 101-13.
“Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022, pp. 370-89.
“Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 76, no. 4, 2022, pp. 455-90.
“Undisciplining Englishness: Narratives of Colonial Encounter in Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four.” 『19세기영어권문학』 Nineteenth-Century Literature in English, vol. 25, no. 2, 2021, pp. 229-57.
“Norfolk and the Sense of Loss: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 61, no. 3, 2019, pp. 270-90.
