HeeJin Lee

PROGRAM ADVISOR

HeeJin Lee is Assistant Professor and Marianna Brown Dietrich Breakthrough Scholar Chair of Korean Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a scholar of modern Korean literature with research interests in Cold War cultures and the politics of decolonization in comparative contexts. Lee is currently working on her first book manuscript, which traces how anticommunism in Korea during the early years of the Cold War shaped what we know about modern Korean literature today.