Jooyeon Rhee

I am Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature whose multidisciplinary research interests include literary history, literary criticism, gender studies, post/colonial history and theory, film studies, food studies, and diaspora studies. My first book, The Novel in Transition: Gender and Literature in Early Colonial Korea (Cornell, 2019), investigates the transnational feature of modern Korean novels at the intersections of nation, gender and colonialism. I co-edited Korean Culture from the Edge (forthcoming, Bloomsbury, 2025), Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias (Lexington, 2021), and a number of special journal issues including “Culinary Culture on the Move” (Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2023); and published articles and book chapters on Korean and Japanese literature and film, food studies, and diaspora studies. Currently, I am working on two projects: Empire of Deviance: Genre and Gender through Korean and Japanese Crime Fiction examines popular imaginations of deviance in Korean and Japanese crime fiction, teasing out how the literary genre responded to colonial modernity; and representations of food in contemporary global East Asian literature and films with ‘minor kitchen’ as a critical concept to shed light on the intricate networks and movements of people, capital, and thoughts at the intersections of gender and race/ethnicity.