1226 Park Street
HSSC N2164
51勛圖, IA 50112
United States
Jaehyuk Lee
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Jaehyuk Lee is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Japanese. His research examines the interplay between memory and political power, with a particular focus on the functions of literary writing within that dynamic. He investigates diverse premodern East Asian contexts, including China during the Three Kingdoms period, under Mongol rule, and late Joseon Korea. He is currently expanding his research to explore the use of premodern historical memory in contemporary media.
Education and Degrees
Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University (2025)
M.A. Chinese Literature, Seoul National University (2015)
B.A. Chinese Literature, Seoul National University (2013)
Selected Publications
Romanticizing the Enforced Freedom in Qiao Jis Songs of the Fisherman. Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 54 (November 2025): 153-174.
Rewriting the Symbol: Yngjos Appropriation of Guan Yu Worship in Chosn Court Politics. Acta Koreana 28, no. 1 (June 2025): 25-52.
Chaengtu躑i chang躑ros躑i akpusi: Kohanhaeng躑l chungsim躑ro 懂科&紳莉莽梯;伊潺△&紳莉莽梯;賱: 窸&紳莉莽梯;鴗科潺 [Yuefu Poetry as a Field of Power Games: A Case Study of Kuhanxing]. 唬堯喝紳眶眶喝眶鳥喝紳堯硃域釵堯勳 [The Journal of Chinese Language and Literature] 84 (September 2023): 7-37.
A Dialectic between Genres and Extension of Poetic Functions: Zhang Kejius Regulated Songs. The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 8, no. 1 (April 2021): 89-112.
Kangmur躑n h躑r躑go: Lee Jaehyuk hansijip 穈諡潰傭&紳莉莽梯;諝湊: 渥秒 鴔 [A River Flows: Collection of Classical Chinese Poems of Jaehyuk Lee]. Paju: Pur躑nsasang, 2017.