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Josephine D. Lee

Josephine Lee

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English Language and Lit. 310D Lind Hall
Curriculum Vitae

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Narrative

Josephine Lee is currently the director of the Asian American Studies Consortium for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, an academic consortium of twelve major teaching and research universities in the Midwest. She is the author of Performing Asian America and co-editor of Re/collecting Early Asian America, both published by Temple University Press; she has also published numerous book chapters, articles, and reviews on modern drama, theater history, performance, cultural theory, and Asian American Studies.


Specialties

  • Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies
  • Asian American studies

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: English Language and Literature, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

Publications

  • Bridging the Big Twelve—The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Asian American Studies Consortium: Lee, Josephine D, Journal of Asian American Studies, 275-284, October 2009.
  • The Japan of Pure Invention: The Racial History of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Lee, Josephine D, University of Minnesota Press, Author, forthcoming 2010.
  • "Bridging the Big Twelve--The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Asian American Studies Consortium". Lee, Josephine D, Author, October 2009.
  • “Teaching A Doll House, Rachel, and Marisol: Domestic Ideals, Possessive Individuals, and Modern Drama”; 50th anniversary special issue, Modern Drama 50.4 (Winter 2007): 634-653.
  • "Asian American (Im)mobility: Perspectives on the College Plays 1937-1955.” : Lee, Josephine D, Temple University Press, Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature, 2006.
  • “Asian America is in the Heartland: Performing Korean Adoptee Experience": Lee, Josephine D, Indiana University Press, Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen, edited by Eleanor Ty and Donald Goellnicht, Indiana University Press, 2004.
  • Racial Actors, Liberal Myths: Lee, Josephine D, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, 13 , 2003.
  • Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Lee, Josephine D, co-edited with Imogene Lim and Yuko Matsukawa, Temple University Press Series on Asian American History and Culture, Editor, 2002. Link
  • Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage. Lee, Josephine D, Temple University Press Series on Asian American History and Culture, Author, 1997. Link

Awards

  • Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education Award, 2009
  • Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2002 - 2003

Courses Taught

  • Graduate seminar "Race and Performance"
  • Asian American Cultural Criticism
  • Imagining Asian America
  • Asian America Through Arts and Culture
  • Asian American Literature and Drama
  • Modern and Contemporary Drama
  • Shakespeare
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