Yongwoo Lee is an Assistant Professor/Faculty
Fellow of East Asian Studies in the Department of East Asian studies at New York University. His primary research and teaching interests focus on media and cultural studies of modern Korea, critical theory, popular culture in East Asia, film studies, critical musicology, intellectual history of wartime Japan and postwar Korea, Korean contemporary art, and post/colonial historiography. In this talk, he focuses on Lee Erisu’s life and the ways in which her records addressed embedded structures of Japanese colonialism, the impact of Lee’s stardom on socio-cultural values, and the invention of a modern, female subjectivity.