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Home > Faculty Directory : Josephine D. Lee

Faculty

Josephine D. Lee Associate Professor Department of English University of Minnesota 21 Lind Hall 207 Church St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612)625-9510 jolee@umn.edu

Special Interests

• Modern and contemporary British and American drama
• Asian American studies
• Dramatic and literary theory
• Performance studies
  

Honors & Awards

• University of Minnesota Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, 2001-02
• University of California Santa Barbara Library Travel Grant, 2001-02
• CLA Grant for Curricular Innovation (with Professor Laura Gurak, Rhetoric), 1998-99
• President's Minority Faculty Research Award, 1996, 1998
• Wallace Scholar for the Guthrie Theatre, 1996
• McKnight Summer Research Fellowship, 1995
• Graduate School Summer Fellowship, 1995

 

Background

• Education
  • M.A., Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Princeton University
  • B.S., Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Academic Appointments
  • 2001-03: Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Minnesota
  • 1997-Present: Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota
  • 1994-97: Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota
  • 1989-94: Assistant Professor of English, Smith College
  • 1987-89: Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Northridge
  • 1984-87: Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, Princeton University
• Professional and Academic Service
  • Director, Asian American Studies Initiative, University of Minnesota
  • Advisory Board, Modern Drama (2000-05)
  • Editorial Board, Southern Illinois University Press Series on the History of Theatre in the Americas (2000-present)
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Asian American Studies (1998-2003)
  • Editorial Board, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (1998-2002)

Publications

• Books
  • Re/collecting Early Asian America: Readings in Cultural History (co-edited with Imogene Lim and Yuko Matsukawa). Temple University Press Series on Asian American History and Culture, 2002.
  • Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage. Temple University Press Series on Asian American History and Culture, 1997.
• Articles and Book Chapters
  • "Asian Americans in Progress: College Plays 1937-1955." In Re/collecting Early Asian America: Readings in Cultural History, edited by Yuko Matsukawa, Josephine Lee, and Imogene Lim. Temple University Press Series on Asian American History and Culture, 2002.
  • "Stoppard's (Post)Colonial Geography:  In the Native State and Indian Ink."  In The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, edited by Katherine E. Kelly.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001: pp. 38-52.
  • "Bodies, Revolutions, and Magic: Cultural Nationalism and Racial Fetishism."  Modern Drama, 44.1 (Spring 2001): pp. 72-90.
  • "Asian American Cultural Production." Journal of Asian American Studies 3.3. Co-authored with Soo-Young Chin and Peter X. Feng.  (December 2000): 269-281. 
  • "'Speaking a Language that We Both Understand': Reconciling Feminism and Cultural Nationalism in Asian American Theater." In Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater, edited by J. Ellen Gainor and Jeffrey D. Mason. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999; pp. 139-59. 
  • "Disciplining Theater and Drama in the English Department: Some Reflections on 'Performance' and Institutional History," Text and Performance Quarterly 19:2 (April 1999): 145-158. 
  • "Between Immigration and Hyphenation: The Problems of Theorizing Asian American Theater," The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 13:1 (Fall 1998): 45-69. 
  • "Pity and Terror as Public Acts: Reading Feminist Politics in the Plays of Maria Irene Fornes." In Staging Resistance: Essays on Theatre and Politics, edited by Jeanne Colleran and Jenny S. Spencer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998; pp. 166-185.
  • "Linguistic Imperialism, the Early Abbey Theatre, and the Translations of Brian Friel." In Imperialism and the Drama, J. Ellen Gainor, editor. London: Routledge, 1995; pp. 164-181.

Teaching

 
• Graduate seminars
  • English 8510: Critical Theory and Performance (Spring 2003)
• Combined graduate and undergraduate courses
  • AmSt 3001: Introduction to Asian American Studies (Fall 2002)

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