School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
& College of Humanities
Dr Hyunseon Lee
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics College of Humanities Research Associate
- Qualifications
- BA MA (Yonsei) PHD (Dortmund) HABILITATION (Siegen)
- Email address
- hs53@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Hyunseon Lee, PhD habil., is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at SOAS University of London, and a Privatdozentin teaching in German and Media Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. She has also held visiting fellowships at Columbia University in New York, Chuo University Tokyo, and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is a member of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University in Seoul.
She studied Modern German Literature, Film, Theatre, and TV Studies and Korean Literature at Yonsei University (Seoul), Ruhr-University Bochum, and Freie Universität Berlin. She earned her Ph.D. with distinction in German literature from the University of Dortmund and completed her Habilitation (Associate Professorship) in Modern German Literature and Media Studies at the University of Siegen.
Dr Lee is a media and cultural studies scholar with over 20 years of teaching and research experience across the UK, Germany, and East Asia. She brings linguistic precision, cultural insight, and leadership to international academic and research projects. She has taught Korean cinema at SOAS and cross-cultural media studies at institutions including the University of Siegen, University of Dortmund, and University of Tübingen.
Key publications
Dr Lee is the author of Metamorphosen der Madame Butterfly. Interkulturelle Liebschaften zwischen Literatur, Oper und Film (2020) and Geständniszwang und Wahrheit des Charakters in der Literatur der DDR (2000).
She has edited Korean Film and History (2023) and Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows (2022), both published by Routledge, and co-edited Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture (2015), Mörderinnen (2013), and Akira Kurosawa und seine Zeit (2005).
She has published numerous articles across Korean film and popular culture, East Asian cinema, German literature, gender studies, and media aesthetics.
Research interests
Dr Lee's work explores Korean popular culture, East Asian cinema, 20th-century popular and Cold War culture, gender studies, and intercultural dynamics between Europe and East Asia.
Her current research examines shamanism, the North Korean diaspora, forced migration, and post-memory aesthetics of war, making a substantial contribution to transnational film, media, and cultural studies.
