이지은

Ji Eun Lee

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

Academic Appointments

Fall 2022-present Assistant Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Jan. 2021-Aug. 2022 BK21 Postdoctoral Fellow in Interaction English Studies in the Era of AI

Dept. of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Oct. 2020-Dec. 2020 Lecturer, Dept. of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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

Peer-Reviewed Publications

"The Global Digitalization of the University and Language in the Era of APT: A Prompt Response to 'AI and the University as a Service.'" Korean Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 1, no. 2, Nov. 2024, pp. 3-12, https://doi.org/10.23287/KJDH.2024.1.2.1

“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. [A&HCI]

“Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022, pp. 370-89. [A&HCI]

“Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 76, no. 4, 2022, pp. 455-90. [A&HCI]

“The ‘Ruination’ of Englishness: Jamaican Nature and National Identity in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng.” 『현대영미소설』 Studies in Modern Fiction, vol. 28, no. 3, 2021, pp. 239-58. [KCI]

“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. [KCI]

“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. [A&HCI]

“Collective ‘We’ and the Communal Consciousness of Diaspora Identity in Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea.” 『미국학』 American Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2014, pp. 107-126. [KCI]

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS

"Welcoming Sungkyunkwan University to the Consortium." The Dickens Project, April 20, 2023. dickens.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/interview-sungkyunkwan-university.html

“Interview with Plenary Panelist Dr. Ji Eun Lee.” North American Victorian Studies Association, July 14, 2022. twitter.com/NAVSA_2022/status/1547591040999100425?t=PzJrXjJ8ksoKzlv2hoXh_Q&s=19

Ji Eun Lee, lesson plan dev. “Colonial Landscapes and Travel Narratives.” Carolyn Betensky, Melissa Free, Cherrie Kwok, collab. peer revs.; Sophia Hsu, cluster dev. Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2021. undiscipliningvc.org/html/lesson_plans/africa_colonial_landscapes.html

“Interview with Ji Eun Lee about Kazuo Ishiguro.” Interview conducted by Corey Brooks. University of Texas Press, April 14, 2021. utpressnews.blogspot.com/2021/04/interview-with-ji-eun-lee-about-kazuo.html

“Ruins of the Past in the Present: The Reconfiguration of Modernity in the Moller Villa.” Urban China, issue 72, October 2015, pp. 100-107.

“관악에서 세계로 뻗어나가는 청운의 꿈; Leaving Gwanak for Abroad, with Dreams.” SNU News, August 29, 2012. snu.ac.kr/snunow/snu_story?bm=v&bbsidx=114352.

Research Interests

nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian studies, theory of the novel, postcolonial studies, empire and colonialism, environmental humanities, animal studies, ecocriticism, London, history of urbanization, cities, digital humanities, contemporary Anglophone literature, digital humanities, artificial intelligence, large language models, language

Selected Awards and Fellowships

2021-22 BK21 Postdoctoral Fellowship in “Interaction English Studies in the Era of AI,” Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), funded by the Korean Government’s BrainKorea21Four

2019 Honorable Mention for the William H. Scheuerle Graduate Student Paper Award, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS)

2018 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA English Department

2013 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for the Teaching of Literatures in English: Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial (ITP) Studies

2012 Fulbright Graduate Study Award

2012 UCLA English Department First-Year Fellowship

2008 SNU Superior Academic Performance Scholarship

2008 SNU Student-Directed-Education Fellowship

2006 SNU-Princeton Study Abroad Scholarship

Selected Conference Presentations

2024 "Decolonizing Victorian Aesthetic Criticism in Colonial Korea: Humanism from Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater to Kim Hwan-Tae, Choe Jaisou, and Lee Yang-Ha." Plenary Session, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA): “Even 2024,” Seoul, South Korea, September (Invited Plenary Speaker)

2024 Reading with (Gen)AI Benchmark: The Evolution of the Term 'Victorian'" Modern Language Association (MLA)

2023 “Crossover(s) between Victorian Environmentalism in Colonial Korea and Ecocriticism Today," Session 394: "Romantic and Victorian Crossovers," Modern Language Association (MLA): "Working Conditions," San Francisco, CA, January 5-8

2022 “Just Victorian Africa in Ecological Landscapes,” Plenary Session on “Just Ecologies,” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA): “Just Victorians,” Bethlehem, PA, September 27 – October 1 (Invited Plenary Speaker)

2022 “Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other,” LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century-English: “Victorians in Location,” Modern Language Association (MLA): “Multilingual US,” Washington, DC (zoom), January 6-9

2021 Organizer and Presenter, SKKU BK21 Panel “Call for Interaction between English Studies and the New Normal,” English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK): “Beyond Pandemics: Imagining the Humanities and the New Normal,” Seoul (zoom), December 16-18

2021 “Victorian Africa: Colonial Landscapes in Transition,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS): “Victorian Transitions,” Zoom, October 14-16

2021 Invited roundtable speaker, "Collective 'We' and the Communal Consciousness of Diaspora Identity in Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea." “Baltimore’s Possible Futures: A Dialogue on ‘Rising Asia,’ Black Erasure, and the ‘Ungentrifiable City,’” American Studies Association (ASA): “Creativity within Revolt,” OpenWater, October 11-14

2021 “Colonial Lansdcapes: The EmergencE/Y of Victorian Africa," Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): "EmergencE/Y," Virtual Platforms, July 26-August 6.

2021 “Decolonizing, or 'Undisciplining' and 'Widening,' the Victorian Studies Classroom: Reflections and Suggestions," Dickens Universe Graduate and Postgraduate Conference, Zoom, March 6-7.

2021 “Urban Mobility and Narrative Form: Wooshing in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay,” Special Session: “Literary Urban Studies Now,” Modern Language Association (MLA): “Persistence,” Zoom, January 7-10.

2019 “Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS), “Victorian Stakes & Stakeholders,” Seattle, WA, November 7-10

2015 “Norfolk and the Sense of Loss: Colonial Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go,” UCLA Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Conference: “Excess,” Los Angeles, CA, February 20

2014 “Land, the Great House, and the ‘Ruination’ of Englishness in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng,” Society for Novel Studies (SNS), “Land and the Novel,” University of Utah, UT, April 4-6

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