Meera Lee's CV - College of Arts and Sciences - Syracuse University

Articles in Refereed and Peer-reviewed Journals(forthcoming)“Psychoanalysis as ‘Imaginary Ethnography’ in East Asian Studies.” the Inaugural Issueof VERGE: Studies in Global Asias (August 2015) (invited)“Humanity and Monstrosity in Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host.” positions: asia critique“Can the Subaltern Desire?” in Deleuze Studies. Special Issue of “Deleuze and the Non-West.” ed. Alex Taek-Gwang Lee.(in print)“(Re)thinking of Cosmopolitanism and Its Shadow.” South Asian Review 27.2 (2006).“The Troubled Gender and Class in Raymond Carver.’” The American FictionAssociation in Korea 3, no.1 (2006): 173-94.“Masculinity and Its Discontents in Hemingway’s Short Stories,” originally written andtitled in Korean 「헤밍웨이 단편의 남성성 연구 」. The Hawthorn and American Novel Society in Korea13, no.1 (2006): 95-113.(in preparation to be submitted)“The Malady of Han: Theorizing the Korean Psyche”Book Chapters(in print)“Encore!: Trauma and Counter-memory in Kim Ki-duk’s Time” in PsychoanalyzingCinema: Lacan, Deleuze and Zizek. ed. Jan Jagodzinski (Palgrave, 2012): 89-110.“The Meaning of The Han in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” Festschrift forProfessor Ahn (Seoul: Doing-in, 2007): 85-109.Articles in Non-academic Journals(in print)“Forgotten History, Forgotten Film: Jang Sun-woo’s A Petal” in Stone Canoe: a journalof arts, literature and social commentaries 7 (2013); http://www.stonecanoejournal.orgTranslation(in print)The Korean translation of chapter 5 “Replacement Children: The TransgenerationalTransmission of Traumatic Loss” of Gabriele Schwab’s Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories andTransgenerational Trauma. (Columbia UP, 2010);「 : 대적 물림 」in21 st Century Literature 16, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 26-45.WORKS IN PROGRESS:The Malady of Han: Trauma, Phantom and Korean Subjectivity (book manuscript in progress)Love and Its Discontents: Crisis of the Asian Female Subject (research in progress)INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:2014—Invited Presentation on “Han Studies.” The Rising Stars Conference, USC KoreanStudies Institute, 2014. (expected)2013—Invited Lecture, “Transgenerational Trauma, Phantom Emotion.” HumanitiesFaculty Fellow Lecture Series, Syracuse University, April 9.2013—Invited Participant in The Society for the Study of Bio-political Futures-theWorkshop sponsored by the Syracuse University Humanities Center and the Mellon CNYHumanities Corridor, Syracuse University, April 5-6.2012—Invited Presenter, “The Poetics of Pain: Shamanistic Possession, EmotionalOccupation.” The 5 th Annual NAOKOL (North American Organization on KoreanLiterature) Workshop, Binghamton University, October 6.2012—Invited Lecture, “Theorizing Han: An Affect Wave and Psychoanalytic TurnTowards Rethinking ‘Koreanness.’” Humanities Faculty Fellows Lecture Series, Syracuse University,Meera Lee/CV Page 2

Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Santa Clara University, October 27-8.2006—“Cosmopolitanism and Its Shadow”- NYCAS (New York Conference on AsianStudies), St. Lawrence University, October 7-8.PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:Coordinator of the Faculty Working Group between SU and Cornell U (with Brett de Baryand Naoki Sakai from Cornell U) on a on-going series “Critical Theory and the Global: The Politicsof Translation” sponsored and funded by the Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor, Sep 27, 2013(Cornell), Feb 22 & March 9, 2013 (SU).Organizer of the Panel “Trauma Studies and Contemporary East Asian Literature andFilm: Trauma, Memory and History” for MLA’s (Modern Language Association’s) 2013 AnnualMeeting, Boston, January 3-9, 2013.Organizer of the Humanities Faculty Fellows Lecture Series, Syracuse University funded bythe SU Humanities Center, Spring 2012 & 2013.Organizer of the Seminar “(Re)translating Theory in Asian Context” (with Alex Taek GwangLee) for The ACLA’s (American Comparative Literature Association’s) 2012 Annual Meeting, BrownUniversity, March 29-April 1, 2012.Organizer of Professor David Eng’s invited public lecture & Chair of his mini-seminar for theSU Fall Symposium funded by the SU Humanities Center & sponsored by English, the LGBT andWomen’s Studies, September 19-20, 2011.Assisted in inviting a Korean Comparatist Professor Chon Young-Ae from Seoul NationalUniversity for the conference “Lay Down Your Weapons: Writing Against War” in collaborationwith the Department of Language, Literatures and Linguistics, Syracuse University, November, 2010.Pre-screener and Film Reviewer for Syracuse International Film Festival: East Asian Cinema(mainly Korean Cinema), 2009, 2010 & 2012: http://www.syrfilmfest.com/SERVICE FOR THE PROFESSIONDiscussant for the Panel “Youth in South Korea: Life after Democratization, CompressedModernization, and Globalization”- the 2013 Annual Conference of the AAS(Association for Asian Studies), San Diego, March 21-84, 2013.Discussant for the Panel “Empire and Science Fiction in Asia”- the 2012 AnnualConference of the AAS (Association for Asian Studies), Toronto, March 15-8, 2012.Chair and Discussant for Session IV: “Family Affairs: Parents, Spouses and Caregivers” - the40th Annual Conference of the MARAAS (Mid-Atlantic Region/Association for AsianStudies), Princeton University, October 22-3, 2011.Manuscript Reader for the Peer-reviewed journal Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies2010.Simultaneous Translator for the panel at the AKS (Academy of Korean Studies) InternationalWorkshop on Korean Literature, 2002.UNIVERSITY SERVICE & COMMITTEES:Syracuse UniversitySupervising the Korean Language Program at LLL, 2013-Facilitator of the Book Club as part of the Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage MonthProgram, April 12, 2013Moderator of Q&A with David Henry Hwang in the University LectureSeries, April 4, 2013Faculty Committee on Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month, 2013Advisory Committee on Faculty Advisory Board of Critical Ethnic Studies in the SUHumanities Center, 2010-1Meera Lee/CV Page 4

Ad-Hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies in the Department of English, 2010-1Curriculum Developing Committee and Student Mentor in Asian/Asian AmericanStudies Minor, 2009-presentRESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS:Korean cinema, contemporary Korean literature and culture, trauma, emotion, Asian American narratives,comparative postcolonial studies, translation, gender & sexuality, psychoanalysis, critical theoryCOURSES TAUGHT:Syracuse UniversityEast Asian Culture IndustryTrauma and Haunting in East Asian Literature and CinemaTrans-Pacific Identity: Memory, Representation and TraumaThe Other Asia(s): From Hollywood to Contemporary East Asian CinemaReading the Other Asia(s)Contemporary Narratives on Ethnic LiteraturesDankook UniversityContemporary Ethnic LiteratureIntroduction to Western Public CultureMEDIA APPEARANCES:Interview with Jerk. “Gangnam Style, What Does it Really Mean?” Oct 24, 2012.(http://www.jerkmagazine.net/columns/web-exclusives/gangnam-style-whatdoes-it-really-mean.html).Interview with KDRV (the local news broadcasting in Eugene, OR) on the crisis of IMF inKorea as a representative of international East Asian students from University of Oregon, September,1997.LANGUAGES:Korean (native)Chinese (intermediate reading & elementary writing)French (elementary reading)PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:MLA (Modern Language Association)AAS (The Association for Asian Studies)ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)REFERENCES: available upon requestMeera Lee/CV Page 5