Jaeyeon Lee is an assistant professor of international studies in the global politics and societies (GPS) department. She earned her Ph.D. in comfort women activism led by South Korean postcolonial subjects in the context of East Asian (post) Cold War geopolitics at the University of Kentucky, her M.A. in the Uncanny Poetics of Baek Seok at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, and her B.A. in Korean literature and language, and philosophy. Her current research explores the relationship between post-colonial cities and women’s bodies and affects.
Courses Taught
- Geopolitics
- Korean Media, Literature, and Society
- Postcolonial and Poststructural TheoriesÂ
- Comparative Urbanism
- Psychic Lives of PoliticsÂ
- Gender, Love, and Class in East Asian Popular Culture
- Feminist Geographies
- World Geography
- Globalization and Local Responses
- Affect, Space, and Power
Research Interests
- Korean comfort women; emotion and affect; (post-) Cold War; political and cultural geographies; geopolitics; (post)colonialism; nationalism and gender; trauma; psychoanalysis; social movements; political philosophy; critical pedagogies; urban studies; ethnography; museum activism; virtual reality technology; postcolonial tourism
Education
- Ph.D., geography, University of Kentucky
- M.A., Korean poetry, Sogang University in South Korea
- B.A., philosophy and Korean literature and language, Sogang University in South Korea
Publications & Articles
- Peer reviewed
- Lee, J. (2025). , 1–23.
- Lee, Jaeyeon, and Chang, Ruwen. 2022. Gender, Place, and Culture
- Lee, Jaeyeon. 2022. Cultural Geographies, 29 (1): 45-61.
- Lee, Jaeyeon. 2021. Gender, Place, and Culture.
- Lee, Jaeyeon. 2024. Political Geography.