Introducing the New Faculty: So-Rim Lee

The Kim Program welcomes Dr. So-Rim Lee who is a Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.

So-Rim's research explores contemporary Korea from the intersection of performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies. She is currently writing a book manuscript on the representations of plastic surgery in South Korea and their fraught relationship with the interwoven narratives of women, transgender/genderqueer people, and people with disabilities. Prior to joining Penn faculty, So-Rim taught courses on Korean cinema and K-pop at New York University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, served as a Moon Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies at Penn’s EALC, and was an Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Her writings can be found in TDR: The Drama Review, Television & New Media, positions: asia critique (forthcoming in 2022), among others.