Jung Joon Lee

Associate Professor
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BA, Miami University
MA, Cuny Hunter College
PHD, CUNY Graduate Center

Jung Joon Lee’s research and teaching interests span the intersections of art and politics, transoceanic intimacies and decoloniality, and gender and sexuality. Specializing in the history and theory of photography, Lee teaches courses that engage critically with image making as a form of history making.

Lee’s book Shooting for Change: Korean Photography after the War (Duke University Press, 2024) explores the discursive ways that photography in Korea and its diaspora presents an everyday cathected by 20th-century war and militarism and their ongoing pervasiveness. She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph exploring photography and art exhibitions as a space of transoceanic collaboration, kinship making and repair; and the co-edited volume Queer Feminist Elsewhere: Decolonial Making in Transpacific Art based on the 2021 RISD conference Queer/Feminist/Praxis, which Lee co-organized to bring together works by scholars and artists in Korea and the Korean diaspora. She has published in such journals as History of Photography, photographies, Trans Asia Photography, Journal of Korean Studies and PhotoResearcher. Lee’s recent publications include essays on grieving as artistic collaboration and Cold War temporality and images of transnational adoption.

In 2022–23, Lee was a society fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities, researching site-specific, transpacific and intergenerational collaborative projects by Asian and Asian American artists. Lee was the visiting professor of media studies and critical theory at the Graduate School of Communication and Arts, Yonsei University in spring 2022. Prior to her studies in art history, Lee trained in urban planning and worked for a global planning consortium. Issues of urbanity remain among Lee’s major interests.

Academic areas of interest

History and theory of photography; contemporary art; gender and sexuality studies; decolonial studies; media studies; critical university studies; postcolonial studies

Courses

Fall 2023 Courses

LAEL 1034-01 - HISTORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY I
Level Undergraduate
Unit Photography; Liberal Arts
Subject Liberal Arts Elective
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

LAEL 1034-01

HISTORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY I

Level Undergraduate
Unit Photography; Liberal Arts
Subject Liberal Arts Elective
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: TTH | 9:40 AM - 11:10 AM Instructor(s): Jung Joon Lee Location(s): Design Center, Room 212 Enrolled / Capacity: 30 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Part I of a two-semester course that will survey major topics in the Histories of Photography. Emphasis will be given to the diverse cultural uses of photography from its invention to the present day. Such uses include: the illustrated press; amateur photography; studio photography; industrial, advertising, and fashion photography; political and social propaganda; educational and documentary photography; and photography as a medium of artistic expression. Much attention will be paid to how photographs construct histories, as well as being constructed by them.


Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Students. 

Major Requirement | BFA Photography

Elective

THAD H101-03 - THAD I: GLOBAL MODERNISMS
Level Undergraduate
Unit Theory + History of Art + Design
Subject Theory & History of Art & Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

THAD H101-03

THAD I: GLOBAL MODERNISMS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Theory + History of Art + Design
Subject Theory & History of Art & Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: TTH | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM; T | 2:50 PM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Jung Joon Lee Location(s): Auditorium, Room 132; College Building, Room 424 Enrolled / Capacity: 20 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a required course for all first year and transfer students to introduce them to global modern and contemporary art, architecture and design in the period between 1750 and the present. The course addresses modernism as a global project, presenting several case studies from across the world that unfold to show how multiple kinds of modernism developed in different times and distant places. By presenting alternate, sometimes contradictory stories about modern and contemporary art and design, along with a set of critical terms specific to these times and places, the class aims to foster a rich, complex understanding of the many narratives that works of art and design can tell. With this grounding, students will be well positioned to pursue their interests in specialized courses in subsequent semesters. 
 
Registration process: First-year students are registered into sections by the Liberal Arts Division.
Transfer and sophomore and above students should register into the evening section offered in the fall. 
 
For schedule conflicts during lecture times, please contact the Academic Programs Coordinator in the Liberal Arts Division office. For issues with registration, contact the Registrar's office for assistance. 
 

Major Requirement | BFA

THAD H101-04 - THAD I: GLOBAL MODERNISMS
Level Undergraduate
Unit Theory + History of Art + Design
Subject Theory & History of Art & Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

THAD H101-04

THAD I: GLOBAL MODERNISMS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Theory + History of Art + Design
Subject Theory & History of Art & Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 12:50 PM; TTH | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM Instructor(s): Jung Joon Lee Location(s): College Building, Room 424; Auditorium, Room 132 Enrolled / Capacity: 20 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a required course for all first year and transfer students to introduce them to global modern and contemporary art, architecture and design in the period between 1750 and the present. The course addresses modernism as a global project, presenting several case studies from across the world that unfold to show how multiple kinds of modernism developed in different times and distant places. By presenting alternate, sometimes contradictory stories about modern and contemporary art and design, along with a set of critical terms specific to these times and places, the class aims to foster a rich, complex understanding of the many narratives that works of art and design can tell. With this grounding, students will be well positioned to pursue their interests in specialized courses in subsequent semesters. 
 
Registration process: First-year students are registered into sections by the Liberal Arts Division.
Transfer and sophomore and above students should register into the evening section offered in the fall. 
 
For schedule conflicts during lecture times, please contact the Academic Programs Coordinator in the Liberal Arts Division office. For issues with registration, contact the Registrar's office for assistance. 
 

Major Requirement | BFA

Spring 2024 Courses

LAEL 1039-01 - HISTORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY II
Level Undergraduate
Unit Photography
Subject Liberal Arts Elective
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

LAEL 1039-01

HISTORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY II

Level Undergraduate
Unit Photography
Subject Liberal Arts Elective
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: TH | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM Instructor(s): Jung Joon Lee Location(s): Design Center, Room 212 Enrolled / Capacity: 30 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Part II of a two-semester course that will survey major topics in the Histories of Photography. Emphasis will be given to the diverse cultural uses of photography from its invention to the present day. Such uses include: the illustrated press; amateur photography; studio photography; industrial; advertising, and fashion photography; political and social propaganda; educational and documentary photography; and photography as a medium of artistic expression. Much attention will be paid to how photographs construct histories, as well as being constructed by them.

Preference given to Sophomore Photography Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Photography

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BA, Miami University
MA, Cuny Hunter College
PHD, CUNY Graduate Center