James Kyung-Jin LeeAssociate Professor and Chair, Asian American Studies Affiliated Faculty, English Director, Culture and Theory |
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| URL | Urban Triage | |
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University of California, Santa Barbara, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (affiliation with the Department of English), 2006-9 University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, 2004-6 The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies, 2002-4 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2 |
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Research Abstract |
Jim Lee sits on the editorial board of the Heath Anthology of American Literature and the advisory board of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. He is a former associate editor of American Quarterly and book review editor of Amerasia Journal. Jim also served as Associate Director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from 2003-4. He holds affiliation with the Department of English. Jim is currently at work on the ethical and political dimensions of race and illness. Jim is also a priest in the Episcopal Church. |
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| Publications | Co-guest editor, special issue on Russell Leong, Amerasia Journal 17.1 (2011). | |
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Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. "The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination." PMLA 123.5 (2008): 1550-6. "Warfare, Asian American Literature, and Commitment." Amerasia 32.3 (2006): 79-87. |
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Professional Societies |
American Studies Association Association for Asian American Studies Modern Language Association Asian Pacific Americans and Religion Research Initiative |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5634 | |
| Last updated | 01/12/2013 | |