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  • Associate Professor British Novels
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    Lab Ji Eun Lee (ORCID)
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Research Interest

Nineteenth-century literature, Contemporary Anglophone literature, Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, 

Education

  • PhD in English, UCLA

Experience

  • August 29, 2025 - present, Associate Professor, SKKU
  • Mach 2026 - present, international committee, Korean Association for Digital Humanities
  • Jan 1, 2025 - present, Director of Translation studies, SKKU Graduate School of Language and AI
  • August 1, 2024 - Feb 28, 2025 Faculty Director, SKKU Interaction English Studies
  • June 2024 - May 2026 Research Director, The Korean Society of Nineteenth-Century Literature in English
  • 2023 Public Relations Director, English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
  • Aug. 29, 2022 - Aug. 28, 2025 Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, SKKU
  • Jan. 2021 - Aug. 2022 BK21 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Language and Literature, SKKU
  • Fall 2020 Lecturer, Department of English, UCLA
  • 2019-2020 Instructor of Record, Department of English, UCLA
  • 2013-2018 Teaching Fellow/Associate/Assistant, Department of English, UCLA

Journal Articles

  • (2024)  The Global Digitalization of the University and Language in the Era of APT: A Prompt Response to “AI and the University as a Service”.  Korean Journal of Digital Humanities (KJDH).  1,  2
  • (2023)  Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other.  VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE.  51,  1
  • (2023)  Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker's Dracula.  STUDIES IN THE NOVEL.  54,  4
  • (2022)  PROWLING IN LONDON: CANINES IN BRAM STOKER?S DRACULA.  STUDIES IN THE NOVEL.  54,  4
  • (2022)  Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay.  NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE.  76,  4
  • (2021)  The "Ruination" of Englishness: Jamaican Nature and National Identity in Michelle Cliff's Abeng.  현대영미소설.  28,  3
  • (2021)  Undisciplining Englishness: Narratives of Colonial Encounter in Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four.  19세기 영어권 문학.  25,  2
  • (2019)  Norfolk and the Sense of Loss: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.  TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE.  61,  3

Honors / Awards

  • 2023 Samsung Research Fund Support Projects
  • Honorable Mention for the William H. Scheuerle Graduate Student Paper Award, 2019.
  • UCLA English Department Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2018
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for the Teaching of Literatures in English: Imperial, Transnational, Postcolonial (ITP), 2013.
  • Fulbright Graduate Study Award, 2012.

Conference Paper

  • (2026)  Victorian Resemblances across the Globe: Thomas Carlyle and George Bernard Shaw in Colonial Korean Periodicals.  MLA 2026 convention.  CANADA
  • (2025)  Machine-Reading the Evolution and Discourse Networks of the Term “Victorian”.  ELLAK.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2025)  Panel II: phantasmagoria.  Dickens Project Conference.  UNITED STATES
  • (2024)  Decolonizing Victorian Aesthetic Criticism in Colonial Korea: Humanism from Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater to Kim Hwan-Tae, Choe Jaisou, and Lee Yang-Ha.  North American Victorian Studies Association (Event 2024).  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2024)  Reading with (Gen)AI Benchmark: The Evolution of the Term "Victorian".  2024 MLA (Modern Language Association) Annual Convention.  UNITED STATES
  • (2024)  Reading with (Gen)AI Benchmark: The Evolution of the Term “Victorian”.  2024 MLA (Modern Language Association) Annual Convention.  UNITED STATES
  • (2023)  Decolonizing Victorian Aestheticism in Colonial Korea.  2023 ELLAK Conference.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2023)  Just Victorian Africa in Ecological Landscapes.  19세기영어권문학회 봄학술대회.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2023)  Humanity in the Environment: Victorian Environmentalism in Colonial Korea and Ecocriticism Today.  2023 MLA (Modern Language Associatino) Annual Convention.  UNITED STATES
  • (2023)  Humanity in the Environment: Victorian Environmentalism in Colonial Korea and Ecocriticism Today.  MLA 2023 Working Conditions.  UNITED STATES
  • (2022)  Coexistence at the Time of Emergency: Victorian Environmentalism in Colonial Korea and Ecocriticism Today.  The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) 2022.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2022)  Coexistence at the Time of Emergency: Victorian Environmentalism in Colonial Korea and Ecocriticism Today.  ELLAK 2022.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2022)  Just Victorian Africa in Ecological Landscapes.  North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) 2022.  UNITED STATES
  • (2022)  Just Victorian Africa in Ecological Landscapes.  North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA).  UNITED STATES
  • (2022)  Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other.  Modern Language Association (MLA).  UNITED STATES