Doctoral Faculty Profiles 

Dr. Lee-Johnson is the Director of Ed.D. at Webster University. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education. As a first generation immigrant from Hong Kong, she is dedicated to serving the minoritized populations via research, teaching, advising, and service. Lee-Johnson has research experiences in international educational settings, including China, Hong Kong, Italy, and the United States. For example, her research study with 11 researchers in Reggio Emilia, Italy, resulted in an upcoming book on affirming the rights for emergent bi- and multilingual language learners. Some of the highlights of her works include a $2.7 million National Professional Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Education as a Co-PI, an invited speaker at a Harvard Conference in 2021, and an invited guest editor for Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. Her research interests include critical pedagogy, discourse analysis, Bakhtinian theories, and teacher education in K-12 public schools. As an educational researcher, Lee-Johnson aspires to become a voice and advocate for transforming the status quo for minoritized populations in the educational systems of the world.

Media Coverage:

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Flewellen, V. (May 11, 2021) Critical Race Theory. St Louis NPR: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2021-05-11/critical-race-theory-explained

 

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Flewellen, V. (May 3, 2021). KSDK News (TV interview). https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/education/explaining-critical-race-theory-causing-stir-schools-across-country/63-75fe7982-8613-4555-b519-d1a7a85be20e

 

Panelist at Webster Speaks: We are not a virus: Anti-Asian hate in the U.S. April 28, 2021. (https://www.webster.edu/diversity-inclusion/webster-speaks.php)

 

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). We are not a virus. Podcast. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628212/8195818?fbclid=IwAR31NGlwj6g_SJAc2J65uKMIqEYh4nBTfxm8YI2WkXUi_S8pS51OvEN-4FY

program director

Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Ph.D.

Additional resources: ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Academia, Website

Selected Publications:

Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Flewellan, V., Fair, K., O’Connor, K., Dixon, T., Ono, J., Spencer, A., Singler, J., Schmuke, M., Hanses, J., Barton, A., & Rodney, T. (2022). Adapting an Ethnographic Research to an Online Survey Amid COVID-19: Transformative Lens in Educational Research. In Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online.


Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). Defying “Those Who Cannot, Teach” and Other Stereotypes about Teachers: Analyzing the Just Because Poems Written by ESOL Teacher Candidates. TESOL Journal.

 

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). Critical chronotopic analysis for disrupting whitewashedness in TESOL teacher education. In C. Matias (Ed.) The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education (pp. 243-258). Routledge.

 

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Kuo, H. (Eds. in press). This is the worst of times; this is the best of times: Juxtaposing the crisis and opportunities for Asians in the global context. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Spring Special Issue.

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2019). Whitewashedness in Teacher Education: Intertextuality Between Colorblindness and the Ferguson Event. Urban Education (peer-reviewed). https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919857803

Recent Conference Presentations:

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2022). Disrupting Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the Troubled World with Critical Discourse Analysis. National Association for Multicultural Education (Virtual). March 10-12.

 

Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). How to Accept Educational Responsibilities and Disrupt Anti-Chinese Rhetoric due to Covid-19? AERA 2021 Annual Convention (Virtual). April 9-12. 

 

Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Kaiser, D., Mansouri, S., & Kennedy, S.  (2021). Enriching K-12 ESL Teachers' Professional Development Experiences with Saturday Panels. TESOL 2021 Annual Convention (Virtual). March 23-26.


Lee-Johnson, Y. L., Kaiser, D., Mansouri, S., Kennedy, S. (2021). Analyzing the “Just Because…” Poems among Pre-service ESL Teachers: Defying Stereotypes and Reaffirming Teacher Identities. Poster Presentation at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Convention (Virtual). 


Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021, invited). “We are not a virus”: Solidarity and Resilience for Contesting the Renewed Yellow Peril, Sinophobia, and Xenophobia amid COVID-19. Resilience and Reform: Adapting to a Changing World. Harvard College of Asian Programs (HCAP) Conference. Virtual International Conference.


Awards and Honors:

2021                Kemper Teaching Award Nominee

2017                Women of Webster Award 

2017                Kemper Teaching Award Nominee

2016                Diverse Issues in Higher Education’s Emerging Scholar  

                         of the Year Nominee

2015                Kemper Teaching Award Nominee

2014                Kemper Teaching Award Nominee

2012                Flesher Fellowship 

2012                Dorothy D. Scrivener Memorial Scholarship

2011                College of Education and Human Ecology Travel Award

2011                Ray Travel Award

Adjunct Faculty