Contact:
leejiyou@hawaii.edu
Jiyoung Lee is a South Korean PhD student and lecturer in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Having grown up in East Sussex, Cheongdamdong, Jeju Island, Sydney, and Atlanta, she identifies as a perpetually curious Third Culture Kid. She received her BA and MA degrees in English at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. She wrote her MA thesis on the films Flower Drum Song and The Joy Luck Club as “accented” Asian American feature films in Hollywood that subvert the traditional patriarchal family structure and androcentric narrative despite their happy ending formula. She teaches ENG 100 (Composition I) and ENG 272 (Women in Literature; Asian and Asian American Films). Her current research focuses on media representations of the neoliberal Korean daughter, comparative feminist studies, and gender performativity in the diasporic family drama genre.
Publications
Lee, Jiyoung. “Miss Americana and South Korea’s Little Sister: The Gendered Familial/National Celebrities of Taylor Swift and IU.” Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital, and Critique, edited by Hannah McCann, Eloise Faichney, Rebecca Trelease, and Emma Whatman, Routledge, 2024.
Areas of Interest
pop culture, Asian American media, transnational media, family narratives, comparative feminist literary studies, celebrity studies.
Awards
2025 Chesney-Lind Women's Studies Endowed Scholarship.
Education
Ewha Womans University, Master of Arts in English Language and Literature.
Ewha Womans University, Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature.
Courses
Summer Semester 2025
- ENG-100: Composition I
- ENG-100: Composition I
- ENG-272: Introduction to Literature: Culture & Literature
Fall Semester 2025
- ENG-272: Introduction to Literature: Culture & Literature
Fall Semester 2024
- ENG-272: Intro to Lit: Culture & Lit
Summer Semester 2024
- ENG-272: Introduction to Literature
Spring Semester 2024
- ENG-100: Composition I
- ENG-100: Composition I
Fall Semester 2023
- ENG-272: Introduction to Literature: Culture & Literature