Dr. Jinhee Lee

Assistant Professor of History

Coordinator of Asian Studies

Eastern Illinois University

600 Lincoln Avenue

Charleston, IL 61920

Office: 1605 Coleman Hall

Tel 217.581.6065

Fax 217.581.7233

jlee@eiu.edu

Growing up in Korea with three sisters, Dr. Lee realized that memories and interpretations of the seemingly
“shared’ past could vary dramatically even within a family. As a natural extension of her interest in such dynamic
process of producing historical knowledge, Prof. Lee’s current book project examines the competing narratives
of collective violence in the early twentieth-century Japanese empire. Committed to generating cross-disciplinary
methodological innovation in the studies of violence, imperialism, (post) colonialism and critical globalism, Prof. Lee
incorporates variety of historical “texts”—such as rumors, testimonies, paintings, children’s writings, and
commemorations—in her research and teaching in and beyond the boundaries of historical archives. She has
written and translated a booklet, book chapters, book/film reviews, and exhibition brochures in Japanese, Korean
and English. Dr. Lee got her inter-disciplinary training in linguistics, anthropology, area studies and history at
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, S. Korea), Drexel University (PA), University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
and University of Illinois. Prior to joining EIU, she has taught Asian history and cultures at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and Fort Hays State University.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2004.

• Fields of Study: Modern Japanese history, Korean history, Anthropology of Korea.
• Fieldwork: Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, 2002-2003 (with residency at the University of Tokyo).

A.M. in Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

• Fields of Study: Japanese and Korean history.

B.A. in Japanese, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea.

(International Culture College, Shizuoka, Japan; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Department of History, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 2005-

• Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, The Graduate College, Eastern Illinois University, 2007.

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of History, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, 2004-2005.

Graduate Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1997-2003.

• Graduate Teaching Award, 2002.
• Graduate Teacher Certificate, Office of Instructional Resources, University of Illinois, 2000.
• Head Graduate Instructor for EALC 150 Introduction to Japanese Culture, 1998-1999.

Instructor, Hanil Language Institute, Seoul, South Korea, 1996.

- Interpreter, translator, and language instructor for English, Korean, and Japanese

RESEARCH AREAS

Modern East Asia; twentieth-Century Japan; North and South Korea; women in East Asia; collective violence; imperialism and colonialism in historical perspective; archive and knowledge production; historical narratives; language and representation; social impact of natural disaster; immigration and transnationalism; critical globalism

For selected publications, click on these titles (under construction):

BOOKS

· Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumors, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire (forthcoming)

· Kwandongdaejijin tangshi ŭi kugga ch’aegim kwa minjung ch’aegim [Kantō daishinsai ji no chōsenjin gyakusatsu: sono kokka sekinin to minshū sekinin; The Massacre of Koreans Following the Great Kantō Earthquake: State’s Responsibility, People’s Responsibility] (translation with introduction; forthcoming)

· Body That Matters: Colonial Representations of Koreans in the Japanese Empire (in preparation)

BOOK CHAPTERS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

· “The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumors, and Massacre in the Japanese Empire” (forthcoming)

· “Gendai no naka no rekishi to dentō” [History and Tradition in the Modern World] (2001)

· “Takokuseki bunka toshi Yokohama” [Yokohama: The City of Multi-national Culture] (2001)

BOOKLET

· The Massacre of Koreans through Paintings (2003)

ARTICLES

· “Malcontent Koreans” (futei senjin): How Koreans Became ‘Unruly’ in the Japanese Metropole

· Writing Fear, Drawing Trauma: Children’s Narratives of Colonial Violence in Imperial Japan

· For the Sake of the Public: Vigilantes, Self-Defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole

· Commemorating the Great Kantō Earthquake: Futei Senjin and the Politics of Mourning in the Japanese Empire (2008)

· Jinken o kangaeru madoguchi to shite no zainichi Korian no rekishi to kūkan (2003)

· Sinang gwa jŏn’gong: na ŭi yŏksa yŏngu (2003)

BOOK/FILM REVIEWS

· Review of “Leper: Life Beyond Stigma” (2005)

· Review of “The Brotherhood of War: Taegukgi” (2004)

· Review of “Wedding through Camera Eyes: A Trilogy of Wedding Photography in Korea” (2002)

TRANSLATIONS

· National Museum of Japanese History Guidebook (Japanese-Korean translation, 2002)

· Refracted Modernity and the Issue of Pro-Japanese Collaborators in Korea (Korean-English translation with Yoo-Jung Kong, 2002)

· Unfinished Tasks for Korean Family Policy in the 1990s: Maternity Protection Policy… (Korean-English translation with Yoo-Jung Kong, 2002)

· West Goes East: Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (Korean-English translation, 2001 with Yoo-Jung Kong)

· Should Korean Historians Abandon Nationalism (Korean-English translation with Yoo-Jung Kong, 1999)

ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

· “Minzoku gakkō to omoni gakkō” [School for Korean Residents in Japan and Mothers’ School] (2003)

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW

· Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge University Press.

· Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Duke University Press.

· Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY.

· Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

· Longman Publishers, New York.

COURSES TAUGHT

· EALC 250 Introduction to Japanese Culture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2008

· HIS 4775 Women in East Asia, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2007

· HIS 4775/3330 East Asia in the Pacific Century, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2005 & Summer 2007

· HIS 4870/4775 The Two Koreas, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2007

· HIS 4880/4775 Modern Japan: From Samurai To Freeters, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2006

· HIS 1520G Global Interaction, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2006

· HIS 4400 Undergraduate Independent Study, [Themes: Pearl Harbor as Event, Experience, and Memory (Summer 2007), and Women in Tokugawa Japan (Summer 2006), Eastern Illinois University.

· HIS 5990 Graduate Independent Study, [Theme: The Narratives of Filipino “Comfort Women” ] (Summer 2006), Eastern Illinois University.

· HIS 5400 Narratives of Collective Violence in Modern East Asia, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2006

· HIS 1500 Roots of the Modern World: Interaction, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006

· HIST 600 The Pacific Century, Fort Hays State University, Spring 2005

· HIST 111 Modern World Civilization, Fort Hays State University, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005

· EALC 135 Understanding East Asian Cultures and Societies, University of Illinois, Fall 2003

· EALC/HIST 170 East Asian Civilization, University of Illinois, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002

· EALC 150 Introduction to Japanese Culture, University of Illinois, Fall 1998-Spring 2000

INTELLIGENT MINDS I MET IN CLASS (under construction)

• IN THE PAST:

David Clayton

Jeff Corson

Jessica Chuang

Anthony Corelis

Dave Dvorak

Rachael Harzinski

Tara Wuthrich

• IN THE PRESENT

Krishna Thomas

Patrick Harris

Jim Hysell

Julia Morss

Mitsumi Takei

Jonathan Stratton

Chady Hosin

Ann Rollinson

Amanda Evans

Greg Harrell

• MINI-FIELD TRIPS

Making A Scene: Curating Contemporary East Asian Art in the U.S. February 2006

Japan House October 2006

Japan House October 2005

Korean Documentary Film Festival March 2007

Korean Film Festival September 2006

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS

· “A ‘Ghostly Matter’ in the Multiethnic Japanese Empire” for a panel “(De)Colonizing the Korean Body: The Colonial Politics of Malcontent, Miscegenation and Muscularity in the Japanese Empire.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 3, 2008 (scheduled).

· “Excavating Korean Bodies in Twentieth-Century Japan.” Korea Workshop 2007 Gender and Race in Korea. University of Illinois, November 2, 2007.

· Chair and Presenter, paper “Malcontent Koreans (futei senjin): Colonial Representation of Korean Bodies in the Japanese Empire" for Panel “Body That Matters: History, Memory, and Corporeal Discourse in Twentieth-Century Korea and Japan.” The 56^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 19-21, 2007.

· Chair and discussant for panel discussion “Interracial Relations: Asians in America.” Asian Heritage Month Panel Discussion, Eastern Illinois University, April 12, 2007.

· “For the Sake of the Public: Vigilantes, Self-Defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole.” History Colloquium, History Department, Eastern Illinois University, November 15, 2006.

· Chair and Discussant, “Phallocentric Asia?: Reading the Modes of Women’s Agency in Asia.” The 55^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 20-22, 2006.

· “Disaster, Rumor, and Empire Management in Tokyo, 1923.” City and State in Twentieth-Century China and Japan (invited speaker). The Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, October 12-13, 2006.

· Invited Speaker, “Asia in EIU, EIU in Asia.” EIU Uncovered Lecture Series, University Board, Eastern Illinois University, October 4, 2006.

· Invited speaker, “Syllabus and Course Planning Workshop.” The College Teaching Effectiveness Network, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 18, 2006.

· “Fear of Violence, Violence of Fear: Vigilantes, Self-Defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole, 1910s-1920s.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 6-9, 2006.

· Discussant for “The Dual Career of ‘Ariran’: The Korean Resistance Anthem that Became a Japanese Pop Hit” by Taylor Atkins (Northern Illinois University). Korea Workshop The Koreas in a Transforming East Asia. University of Illinois, March 10, 2006.

· “Sex Slavery, Feminism, and Colonial Legacies in Twentieth-Century East Asia.” Women’s History Month Symposium: Global Feminism, Eastern Illinois University, March 8, 2006.

· “Coming of Age in Colonial Korea: Japanese and Korean Literary Vistas.” East Asia Workshop, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 30, 2006.

· “Narratives of Fear, Rumor, and Massacre in the Archives of the Japanese Empire.” Comparing Colonialisms Workshop Symposium The Thing Speaks for Itself: Articulating Evidence and Discourse in Colonial Studies. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 17-18, 2005.

· “Undisciplining the Archives of Empire: Message, Medium, and Colonial Mayhem in the Japanese Metropole” The 54^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, September 25, 2005.

· Chair and discussant for panel, “Body, Space, and Performance.” The 54^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, September 24, 2005.

· “Archival Travel: Mayhem, Medium, and Message in the Unsettled Empire of Japan.” Faculty Research Association and the Office of the Provost, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, April 25, 2005.

· Discussant for panel, “An Interdisciplinary Look at Minorities in Japan: Multiple Origins and Identities.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1, 2005.

· Guest Lecturer, “Myths of Asian Americans in the United States.” Multicultural Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fort Hays State University, February 24, 2005.

· Guest Lecturer, “Asia and Asians in the United States.” Multicultural Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fort Hays State University, November 11, 2004.

· Invited Speaker, “Landing on Job Market in Asian Studies.” Graduate Professional Development Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, October 7, 2004.

· “Incomplete Project of Narrative Control: Commemoration of the Massacred Koreans in the Japanese Empire.” The 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2, 2004.

· “Competing Narratives of Commemorative Sites: Earthquake, Massacre, and Commemoration of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Japan.” The Seventh Annual New School for Social Research Sociology and Historical Studies Joint Conference, History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory. April 24, 2004 (in absentia).

· “Context in Contestation: Practice of Culture and the Politics of Rumors in the Japanese Empire.” The Sixth Annual Conference, Violence. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Levis Faculty Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 1-2, 2004.

· “Imagined Inversion of Colonial Violence: Earthquake, Rumors, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire, 1923.” (Old title: “For the Sake of the Japanese Public: Earthquake, Rumors and the Vigilante Violence in the Japanese Empire”) Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 4-7, 2004.

· “Korean Problem or Koreans’ Problem?: Practicing and Narrating Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole.” Korea Workshop Transnational Korea. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 6, 2004.

· “The Vigilante Trials and the Narratives of the Massacre in Imperial Japan, 1923.” The 52^nd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, October 10-12, 2003.

· “Practice of Violence, Competing Narratives: Choices of Interpretations in the Vigilante Massacre Trials in Japanese Empire, 1923.” The 4^th Global Conference Diversity within Unity: Cultures of Violence. St. Catherine's College, the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 25-28, 2003.

· ”Kantōdaishinsai ji no Chōsenjin gyakusatsu jiken: Kankoku ni okeru kanren shiryō oyobi rekishi ninshiki ni tsuite no shiron” [The Massacred in the Metropole: Documenting and Representing the 1923 Colonial Violence in Korea], Kingendaishi shiryō benkyōkai [Empirical Research Group on Modern History], Bunka senta- arirang, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama, Japan, July 22, 2003.

· “Shokuminchi taisei ka ni okeru shūdan bōryoku no jissen to kaishaku: kantōdaishinsai ji no chōsenjin gyakusatsu jiken o meguru jikeidan no saiban o chūshin ni” [Practicing and Interpreting Collective Violence in Colonial Structure: The Vigilante Massacre Trials After the Great Kantō Earthquake in Imperial Japan], Chōsenshi kenkyūkai [Korean Historical Association of Japan], Senshū University, Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2003 (in Japanese).

· “Bunseki gainen to shite no ‘teikoku’/’teikoku shugi’—so no shinwa to genjitsu e no kentō”(Shohyō Cheguk juŭi: shinhwa wa hyŏnshil, 2000)” [“Empire” and “Imperialism” as Analytical Categories: A Critical Review of Imperialism: Myths and Reality by Ji-hyang Bak (Seoul National University Press, 2000).” Shokuminchi benkyōkai [Post-/Colonial Studies Association], The University of Tokyo, Japan, May 16, 2003 (in Japanese).

· “Practice of Violence, Choices of Interpretations: The Vigilante Massacre Trial in Post-Earthquake Imperial Japan.” Modern Japanese History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, May 2, 2003.

· “ ‘Kōkyō’ no aidentiti- kōchiku ni okeru ‘kako’ zukuri to monogatari—1923 nen chōsenjin gyakusatsu jiken ni okeru jūsōteki kaishaku to bunkateki gensetsu o chūsin to shite” [Making of “History” and Narratives in the Construction of Collective/Public Identity (‘Kōkyō’): Contested Interpretations and Cultural Discourses in the 1923 Massacre of Koreans]. Kankoku chōsen bunka kenkyūshitsu [Division of Korean Studies], The University of Tokyo, January 28, 2003 (in Japanese).

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