James Kyung-Jin Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 5965715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Kyung-Jin Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Kyung-Jin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Kyung-Jin Lee is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine, and an alumnus of the M.A. program in Asian American Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalismi. Jim is also completing a Master of Divinity degree from the Claremont School of Theology and a postulant for the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Author’s Response
Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Prose James Kyung-Jin Lee, Chair, Viet Nguyen, and Gina Apostol Gene Oishi said in a recent interview that it took him fifty years to write his first novel, which we honor today, and that it would likely take him another fifty years to compose another. “I’m eighty-one years old and a slow writer,” he explained only half jokingly. It was worth the wait. An historically important but aesthetically vibrant work, Fox Drum Bebop (Kay…
Illness, Disability, and the Beautiful Life
This essay is the guest editor's introduction to the special issue on Illness and Disability Studies. The piece brings key concepts from Illness and Disability Studies into dialogue with Asian American Studies to crucially ask, What would it mean for Asian American Studies to imagine its central subject, its imagined body, as a disabled one? It also provides a brief accounting of the essays collected in the special issue and some of the connectio…
Anxieties of Influence
The story that Shawn Wong tells of the birth of Lin, Russell's first but certainly not only nom de plume, is a bit different from the one I've heard from Russell himself and from others who've heard it too. You will read Shawn's version shortly. In the version that I remember, the last name derives not from a friend, but from his uncle; the first comes from his love of Stevens's poetry, which may be a bit surprising in 2011, but, as Karen Tei Yam…
The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination
While sociologists generally do not deign to assume such a rhetorical mantle, Michael Omi and Howard Winant Suffuse the first edition of Racial Formation with the language of prophecy that they at once fear to articulate and hope to imagine otherwise. “What does the immediate future hold?” they anxiously wonder. It is unlikely that we shall experience a period of racially based mobilization such as “the great transformation.” The conjuncture in w…
Warfare, Asian American Literature, and Commitment
For me, the literature written by Asian Americans provides with increasing clarity the devastatingly difficult task of resisting the forces that contract our collective lives, and the absolute necessity to do so anyway. By life, I do not mean the fiction of social success, whether portrayed by the persistent narrative specter of the model minority or our rejection of it. And by resistance, I do not mean the symbolic capital (to borrow from Viet N…
Asian Americans
As the rest of the nation, and indeed the world, prepared to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a quieter remembrance was taking place in the halls of Asian American Studies programs around the United States. There was a special kind of grief at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center on September 6, 2002, when director Don T. Nakanishi issued a press release announcing the death of Yuji Ichioka on September …
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Asian Americans
As the rest of the nation, and indeed the world, prepared to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a quieter remembrance was taking place in the halls of Asian American Studies programs around the United States. There was a special kind of grief at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center on September 6, 2002, when director Don T. Nakanishi issued a press release announcing the death of Yuji Ichioka on September …
Warfare, Asian American Literature, and Commitment
For me, the literature written by Asian Americans provides with increasing clarity the devastatingly difficult task of resisting the forces that contract our collective lives, and the absolute necessity to do so anyway. By life, I do not mean the fiction of social success, whether portrayed by the persistent narrative specter of the model minority or our rejection of it. And by resistance, I do not mean the symbolic capital (to borrow from Viet N…
The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination
While sociologists generally do not deign to assume such a rhetorical mantle, Michael Omi and Howard Winant Suffuse the first edition of Racial Formation with the language of prophecy that they at once fear to articulate and hope to imagine otherwise. “What does the immediate future hold?” they anxiously wonder. It is unlikely that we shall experience a period of racially based mobilization such as “the great transformation.” The conjuncture in w…
Anxieties of Influence
The story that Shawn Wong tells of the birth of Lin, Russell's first but certainly not only nom de plume, is a bit different from the one I've heard from Russell himself and from others who've heard it too. You will read Shawn's version shortly. In the version that I remember, the last name derives not from a friend, but from his uncle; the first comes from his love of Stevens's poetry, which may be a bit surprising in 2011, but, as Karen Tei Yam…
Illness, Disability, and the Beautiful Life
This essay is the guest editor's introduction to the special issue on Illness and Disability Studies. The piece brings key concepts from Illness and Disability Studies into dialogue with Asian American Studies to crucially ask, What would it mean for Asian American Studies to imagine its central subject, its imagined body, as a disabled one? It also provides a brief accounting of the essays collected in the special issue and some of the connectio…
Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Prose James Kyung-Jin Lee, Chair, Viet Nguyen, and Gina Apostol Gene Oishi said in a recent interview that it took him fifty years to write his first novel, which we honor today, and that it would likely take him another fifty years to compose another. “I’m eighty-one years old and a slow writer,” he explained only half jokingly. It was worth the wait. An historically important but aesthetically vibrant work, Fox Drum Bebop (Kay…
Author’s Response
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works)