A media and cultural historian, Lee holds a PhD in Art History and Communication Studies from McGill University and previously studied media and cultural studies at the Department of Communication, Seoul National University. He served as a visiting professor in the Department of Asian Studies and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2010–2013), and as a special research fellow at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo (2006–2007). He is currently based at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, where he teaches and conducts research on critical media and cultural studies, sound and visual culture in Cold War East Asia, postcolonial historiography and translation, collective memory and trauma, and popular culture as propaganda. As part of this work, he is writing a monograph that examines the continuity of colonial consciousness and the historical-cultural formation of auditory modernity through East Asian popular music.
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