Calendar Event

April 12, 2012, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Humanities Faculty Fellow Lecture Series

MEERA LEE, Humanities Faculty Fellow

Theorizing Han: An Affect Wave and Psychoanalytic Turn Towards Rethinking “Koreanness”

 Respondent: Karina von Tippelskirch, Assistant Professor of German, German Program Coordinator, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

Meera Lee specializes in contemporary Korean cinema and literature, postcolonial criticism, trauma studies, and psychoanalysis. She has written articles on Korean cinema, gender and subaltern both in English and in Korean, as well as a book on psychoanalysis in Korean. Her essay “Space and Body in Joon-ho Bong’s Cinema The Host: Humanity and Monstrosity” will be forthcoming in positions from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a book manuscript, titled In Search of Han: Trauma, Haunting and Identity. She would like to acknowledge that this paper is a result of her research conducted at the Academy of Korean Studies in Seoul between Dec 2011 and March 2012, where she has been awarded the prestigious AKS 2011 research fellowship on her Han project with their generous support for her residence.

Thursday, April 12, 4:00 p.m. Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304