Esther Kim Lee
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Theatre, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Contact Information:
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Address: Theatre
4-122 Kcpa
500 S Goodwin
M/C 072
Urbana, IL 61801 - Telephone: (217)333-2371
- Email: kim32@illinois.edu
- CV: Download my C.V.
- Office Hours:
- By appointment only
Biography
Esther Kim Lee (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2000) teaches courses in Asian American theatre, modern theatre, ethnic theatre, theatre and globalization, and graduate seminars in theatre history, literature, and criticism. She is a core teaching faculty in the Asian American Studies Program at UIUC and the Chair of the MA/PhD program in the Department of Theatre. She is the author of A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Research Award for Outstanding Booklength Study in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy given by ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education).
Publications
Books
- Lee, Esther K. A History of Asian American Theatre. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Book Contributions
- Lee, Esther K. "Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea." Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical (forthcoming). . Ed. Mike Sell. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Journal Articles
- Lee, Esther K. "Transnational Legitimization of an Actor: the Life and Career of Soon-Tek Oh." Modern Drama 48.2 (2005): 372-406.
Reviews
- Lee, Esther K. Rev. of The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II, by Emily Roxworthy. Theatre Research International 34.3 (2009):