| Asst Prof Lee Hyun Jung
Assistant Professor
Division of English
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: HLEE@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)65138185
Office: HSS-03-70 |
| Education |
- PhD The University of Texas at Austin 2008
- MA New York University 2002
- BA (Hons) Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 2000
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| Biography |
| Professor Hyunjung Lee joined the English Division in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2009. She received her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from The University of Texas at Austin, with her dissertation titled "Global Fetishism: Dynamics of Transnational Performances in Contemporary South Korea" in May 2008. Dr. Lee's research focuses on theatre studies, literature, and popular culture and her articles have been appeared in the Journal of Popular Culture and in Situations. She is now working on a book manuscript which deals with representation, reception, and consumption of Broadway musical productions in contemporary East Asia. |
| Research Interests |
| Dr. Lee's research focuses on theatre studies, literature, and popular culture and her articles have been appeared in the Journal of Popular Culture and in Situations. She is now working on a book manuscript which deals with representation, reception, and consumption of Broadway musical productions in contemporary East Asia. |
| Research Grant |
- RCC (2009-)
- Start Up Grant (2010-2012)
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| Current Projects |
- Doing Broadway in Contemporary South Korea: Exploring Global-Local Dynamics through Musical Performances
- Performing Broadway in Urban Asia
| Selected Publications | - Lee, Hyunjung. (2012). Introduction: Colonial Modernity and Beyond in the East Asian Context. Cultural Studies, 26(5), 601-616.
- Lee, Hyunjung. (2012). Emulating Modern Bodies: The Korean Version of Porgy and Bess and American Popular Culture in the 1960s South Korea. Cultural Studies, 26(5), 723-739.
- Hyunjung Lee. (2012). 'Broadway’ as the Superior ‘Other’: Situating South Korean Transnational Theatre in the Era of Globalization. The Journal of Popular Culture, 45.
- Lee, Hyunjung. (2011). Resisting Against Social Repression in the 1960s U.S.: a Comparative Analysis of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and Living Theatre’s The Brig. Foreign Literature Studies, 43, 257-274.
- Hyunjung Lee. (2011). Double Binding of Empress Myongsong: Gendered Representation of a Heroine in Musical Theatre. comparative study of world literature, 34(Spring), 5-30.
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