Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Humanities
Interests
Modern and contemporary Korean art with a focus on twentieth-century intercultural studies of East Asia and its global political economy, culture industry, environmental history, and art-cultural exchanges in the Cold War
Biography
Dr. Victoria Young Ji Lee received her Ph.D. in modern/contemporary East Asian art and visual culture from Duke University, Durham in 2014. Before arriving at SUNY, she taught East Asian art history and Chinese and Korean studies at Duke University. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College and Denison University in Ohio. She co-edited the special issue of Art in Translation titled Modern and Contemporary Korean Art: Continuity and Transformation (2020). Her articles on Chinese and Korean art appeared in such journals as positions: asia critique, Art in Translation, Journal of Korean Modern & Contemporary Art, Journal of Humanities, Art and the Public Sphere and Asian Cinema.