Kyoo Lee|kylee@jjay.cuny.edu
Department of Philosophy, John Jay College, CUNY, NYC, USA
Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center
Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center
Department of Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
Presentations
(Selected Visuals)
04/14/12 MIAMI U
11/15/11 CUNY
11/12/10 PSU
04/06/08 SUNY
[Spring 2012] Q, a.k.a. Kyoo Lee, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College, CUNY, where she is also affiliated faculty for the Gender Studies, Justice Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies Programs, along with the Honors Program. She also teaches graduate courses and leads faculty seminars in feminist and critical theories at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she started as a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities and is actively involved in promoting interdisciplinary public intellection.
Dually trained in Continental philosophy (Warwick University) and literary theory (London University), both in the evolving tradition of post-phenomenological, “deconstructive” scholarship à la Benjamin/Derrida/de Man, Kyoo Lee publishes widely in the intersecting fields of the theoretical Humanities such as Aesthetics, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature/Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Critical Race theory, Cultural Studies, Deconstruction, Feminist Philosophy, Gender Studies, Phenomenology, Poetics, Rhetoric and Translation. Her first and forthcoming book is titled Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy and Bad (Fordham University Press, 2012). Currently, she is working on a few book-length ‘Alterities’ projects such as one on aporetic intimacy between emotion and reflection in Cartesian philosophy, the sequel to the first monograph; one on ‘Familial Alterities,’ funded by the Mellon Foundation, was inspired by the “paper sons” of Chinese America, the shadowy legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act; another one, on ‘Transnational Alterities,’ looks at intersectional differences between xenophobia(/philia) and racism in the U.S., starting with the Asian American context that eludes and challenges the black & white racial binary. 