Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA.
Currently (2009-10), Mellon Resident Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
She obtained a PhD in Philosophy (2001) from the University of Warwick, UK, and
is ABD (since 2003) for a PhD in English at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Trained in European philosophy and literary theory, she previously taught at:
the University of Warwick (Seminar Tutor, 1997-8)
the University of Memphis (Visiting Professor, 2003-4)
the University of Tasmania (Visiting Professor, Summer 2004)
LaGrange College (Assistant Professor, Fall 2004 - Spr 2007)
Wuhan University (Visiting Professor, Summer 2006).

When not in class, she globetrots to check on the latest and oldest spectacles
on the market. While on the move, she has also been writing, with the glasses on,
about allegory, blindness, camera, children, cinema, dream, idiocy, irony, encounter,
eyelid, letter-writing, madness, melancholia, mirror, parody, party, scream, scurf, silence,
sleep, etc., some of which are published or forthcoming. Her major academic publications including
reviews have appeared in journals and anthologies such as:

Angelaki (Routledge)
The Comparatist
Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY)
Encyclopedia Of Nineteenth-century Thought (Routledge)
How to Talk to Photography (Kokusho, 「もしデカルトが写真を見たなら… 」Trans. by Keijiro Suga)
Mythos and Logos (Rodopi)
Naked Punch
A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Sexuality and Race (Rodopi)
Parallax (Routledge)
Philosophical Writings
Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques
Poetics of In-between Space
Poetry Review (Poetry Society, UK)
Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY)
SOAS Literary Review
Social Identities (Routledge)
Studies in British and American Language and Literature
Young Thought on the Threshold of the New Century (Urals State Univ., Ministry of Education of Russian Federation)
<<Встреча контекстов: некоторые замечания относительно взаимосвязи философии Бахтина и Левинаса>>

When she grows up, she wants to be Alice in Wonderland.


OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES and ACTIVITIES 
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, NYSWIP, USA
  • Member of the Committee on Asian and Asian American Philosophies-Philosophers, APA: American Philosophical Association, USA
  • Member of the Committee on the Status of Women, SPEP: Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Phil, USA
  • Member of the Executive Committee of philoSOPHIA: A Feminist Society, USA
  • (Co-Editor, Special Issue on SAFE, Womens' Studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press, CUNY, USA)
  • (Co-Organizer, All in the Family: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Kinship and Family, CUNY Graduate Center; philoSOPHIA 2010)
  • Manuscript Reviewer for Journal, Derrida Today, Edinburgh University Press, UK
  • Contributing Editor, Nakedpunch, Arts Council of England, UK
IN THE PAST:
  • (Co-organizer, philoSOPHIA 2009, Annual Workshop, John Jay College and Fordham University, USA)
  • Member, Conference Paper Selection Committee, ISUD: International Society for Universal Dialogue, USA


RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS


PUBLICATIONS
Most of my work touches on questions on self, time and language. That triplet generates and guides most of my research projects that are centred on deconstructively re-reading “Cartesian” modernity on various registers: conceptual, cultural, socio-political, historical, rhetorical, aesthetical, technological, pedagogical, and so on. My philosophy PhD reconfigures Descartes in light of Derrida and vice versa; the literature PhD rediscovers, in de Man’s writings on European Romantics and ironists such as Kierkegaard, the dynamic repetition of ironic Cartesianism that un-programmes itself.

A. Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
1.Lee, K. (2007). An Open-ended Song of the New International: (How) Can It Be Invented? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 13(3), 261-282.
2.Lee, K. (2006). The Other of Dialogue: Opening Silences of the Dumb Foreigner. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 12(1), 59-77.
3.Lee, K. (2005). Shelley-de Man Unbound: the Knot of Revolutionary Irony. Studies in British and American Language and Literature 76, 29-55.
4.Lee, K. (2005). Sex and the City: the Female Gaze, Resilient Body and Urban Desire in the Poetry of Choi-Young Mi. SOAS Literary Review 4.
5.Lee, K. (2004). A Calligraphy of Time: Allegory (Dis)orders in the Materialist Aesthetics of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. Parallax, 10(3), 6-19.
6.Lee, K. (2002). A Meditation on Knell, Funeral Melancholia and the Question of Self-Reflexivity: "to Whom Would the Reflexive be Returned?" Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 7(2), 93-105.
7.Lee, K. (2001). Chaogito: A Ceasura of Fable Within Descartes' "Fable". The Saehan Journal of English Language and Literature, 43(2), 431-461.

B. Book Chapters
1.Lee, K. (2009). When Fear Interferes with Freedom: Infantilization of the American Public Seen Through the Lens of Post-9/11 Literature for Children. In L. Alcoff & M. Ortega (Eds.), Constructing the Nation: a Race and Nationalism Reader. SUNY Series, Philosophy and Race (pp. 43-63). Albany: State University of New York Press.
2.Lee, K. (2009). United We Stay… Home: Interrogating the Racialized Bildung of American Children in Post-911 Comfort Books. In M. K. B.-L. a. C. R. Lugo-Lugo (Ed.), A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Sexuality and Race (Vol. Philosophy of Peace, Value Inquiry Books Series (VIBS), pp. 75-87). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
3.Lee, K. (2007). Black Eyes, White Hood; A Para-Sartrean Reflection on the Cosmetic Exemplarity and Racial Mimesis of "The Double Eyelid" (Appearing in Chinese Translation). In F. Wang (Ed.), Literary Criticism and Cultural Criticism (Wenxue Piping Yu wenhua Pipan) (pp. 280-296). Wuhan, China: Central Chinese Normal University Press.
4.Lee, K. (2005). The Madness of Measuring Madness: Revisiting Foucault vs. Derrida on Descartes’ Madmen. In S.-K. K. a. P. Patton (Ed.), Poetics of In-Between Space (pp. 411-438). Pusan: Pusan National University Press.
5.Lee, K. (2005). Kierkegaard. In G. Claeys (Ed.), Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought (pp. 258-262). London ; New York: Routledge.
6.Lee, K. (2004). Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: A Case of Descartes the Olympian Dreamer. In A. A. Anderson, S. V. Hicks & L. Witkowski (Eds.), Mythos and logos: how to regain the love of wisdom (pp. 97-114). Amsterdam; New York, N.Y.: Rodopi.
7.Lee, K. (2004). Moshi Descartes ga shasin wo mitanara. Translation of a Text in English, "If Descartes Saw a Photograph…..," into Japanese by Keijiro Suga. In K. K. a. K. Suga (Ed.), Shashin to no taiwa (How to Talk to Photography) (pp. 167-184). Tokyo Kokusho Kankokai.
8.Lee, K. (2001). An Interesting Non-Alibi in Being: A Levinasian Encounter with Bakhtin. In D. Olshansky (Ed.), Young Thoughts on the Threshold of a New Century (Vol. 2, pp. 8-13). Ekaterinburg: Ural State University Press.
9.Lee, K. (2001). Встреча контекстов: некоторые замечания относительно взаимосвязи философии Бахтина и Левинаса. Abridged Russian Translation of the Text in English, ‘An Interesting Non-Alibi in Being: A Levinasian Encounter with Bakhtin,’ by Demitry Olshansky In D. Olshansky (Ed.), Young Thoughts on the Threshold of a New Century (pp. 13-15). Ekaterinburg: Urals State University.

C. Book Reviews
1.Lee, K. (2005). A Review of Kandice Chuh, Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique (Duke University, 2003). Comparatist: The Journal of Southern Comparative Literature Association, 29, 153-155.
2.Lee, K. (2004). Off the Beaten Track: Shepherding the Later Heidegger. A Review of Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track (Holzwege) (CUP. 2002). Philosophical writings., 23, 75-78.
3.Lee, K. (2003). Schrag and the Task of Philosophy. A Review of Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity (Northwestern Univ Press. 2002). Philosophy in review/ Comptes rendus philosophiques, 23(4), 270-272.

D. Others
1.Lee, K. (2009). From Paper Sons to Asian Babies: Echoes of Familial Alterity From the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882-1943. APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 8(2), 12-13.
2.Lee, K. (2009). Still, Only On Paper, or Not On Paper: The Artefactuality of Asian American Ontology Allegorized in the “Paper Sons”. APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 8(2), 11.
3.Lee, K. (2005). The Madness of Measuring Madness: Revisiting Foucault vs. Derrida on Descartes’ Madmen. Naked Punch 4, 53-66.
4.Lee, K. (2006). Secret Wars I: Launching an Investigation into One Different Hitchcock While Working through Cohen’s Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies Vol. I & II [Electronic Version]. Naked Punch Online Edition. Retrieved January 31, 2008 from http://www.nakedpunch.com/onlineedition/kyoolee.htm.
5.Lee, K. (2004). Hukke-dokashi (Scurf). English Translation. In C. Lee (Ed.), Dialogues: Recent Writings of Chonghwa Lee  (In Japanese) (pp. 3-5). Tokyo: Kosusho Kankokai.
6.Lee, K., and Sarah MaGuire. (2004). At Thirty, The Party Is Over. Poetry Review: Journal of Poetry Society UK 94(4).
7.Lee, K. (2004). At Thirty, the Party is Over: Poetry of Choi Young-Mi. Naked Punch, 3, 31-37.

E. Forthcoming
1.‘Cogito Interruptus: The Epistolary Body in the Elisabeth-Descartes Correspondence, 22 June 1645–3 November 1645.’ PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. 2010. Peer-reviewed. 
2.Review of Laura Hengehold, 2007. The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 2010. Commissioned.
3.‘Buttery Flies: InvAsian Irony and its Interstitial Edges.’ David Kim and Ronald Sundstrom (eds.). (Journal) Philosophy Today. Special Issues on Asian American Philosophy. 2010. Peer-reviewed.   
4.‘On the Transformative Potential of “the Dark Female Animal” in Daodejing.’ Ashby Butnor and Jen McWeeny (eds.). Liberating Traditions: Essays in Feminist Comparative Philosophy. Columbia University Press. 2010. Editorial preparation under way.   


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and INVITED TALKS/LECTURES
01.07/19/2010: “May This, Ululation, Suffice: On Repeating After One, A Derridian Onomatopoeia.” The 2nd Derrida Today International Conference, The British Academy, London, UK
02.07/02/2010: “Mutated Fables of God in the Philosophy of René Descartes: A Mini-Narrative Analysis of A, or The, or Him, or It, or All But …” Philosophy, Sign, Narrative: An International Workshop, CNRS-EHESS (Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage), Paris, France, and Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan 
03.06/17/2010: “From Paper Sons to Asian Babies: Echoes of Familial Alterity From the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882-1943.” Association For Cultural Studies: Crossroads 2010, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
04.05/07/2010: “From Paper Sons to Asian Babies: Echoes of Familial Alterity From the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882-1943.” ISSCO (the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas) VII, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
05.(04/09/2010, Organizer and Moderator): “Carolina in My Mind: John Locke and the Defense of New World Slavery.” Public Seminar with Professor Robert Bernasconi. Faculty Seminar in Atlantic Studies. The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
06.(04/01/2010, Organizer and Moderator): California Dreaming: How Race Alerts and Alters the State, Now and Then. Roundtable. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, APA (American Philosophical Association), San Francisco, USA
07.(03/25/2010, Co-organizer, with Professor Alyson Cole): Mellon Workshop on Family & philoSOPHIA 2010: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Kinship and Community. The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
08.03/19/2010, “Foundational Texts in Enlightenment Political Theory: A Workshop with Kyoo Lee.” Faculty Seminar in Atlantic Studies, The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
09.03/02/2010, “Re-Orientale: Reading Orientalism with Gayatri Spivak and Kyoo Lee,” The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
10.(03/01/2010, Organizer and Moderator): Foreigners in Us—Why Love to Hate? Public Forum on Xenophobia/philia. Launch Event for the Faculty Seminar Series in Asian American Studies, Asian American/Asian Research Institute, CUNY, New York, USA
11.(02/20/2010, Organizer and Moderator): Author Meets Critics: Falguni Sheth, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race (SUNY Press, 2009). Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, APA (American Philosophical Association), Chicago, USA
12.12/05/2009: “Chinamen Must Have No Sex (With Women): Echoes (of Heteronormativity and Homoethnonationalism) From the Era of Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882-1943,” Re-orienting English: Paradigms in/of Crisis. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 
13.(11/06/2009, Co-organizer, with Professor Alyson Cole): Who Cares About Family? Public Talk. Mellon Seminar in Family. The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
14.11/07/2009: “Dream On, Children: Whither the Dream Act?” The Concerned Philosophers for Peace 21st Annual Conference. University of Dayton, OH, USA  
15.11/06/2009: “Soldiering On Otherwise, Critically and Collectively: Interdisciplining Student-Survivors of Military Violence, Sexual Abuse and War Trauma,” Co-presentation with Professors Katie Gentiles and Jean Mills of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The Third Feminist Pedagogy Conference. The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
16.(10/05/2009, Organizer and Moderator): What’s Sex Got To Do with Family? Public Talk. Mellon Seminar in Family. The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
17.06/01/2009: “A Queery Into M. Descartes: Larvatus prodeo II,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Brunel University, London, UK
18.(05/27/2009, Co-organizer, with Professor Ann Murphy): philoSOPHIA 2009: Cross-examining Now: Intersections of Gender, Race and Class. John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Fordham University, New York, USA
19.04/25/2009: “Sustained Shadows of Sustainability: A Resistantialist Look At Bio-centric Ableism,” Sustainability Conference. Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA
20.03/08/2009: “Why I Care About ‘Cartesian Moments’ in Foucault: From History of Madness to The Hermeneutics of the Subject,” Foucault Circle. DePaul University, Chicago, USA
21.02/26/2009: “If China Travelled to Descartes: Descartes’ Cartographical Schizophrenia Seen From a Perspective of Multiple Modernities,” North East Modern Language Association. Boston, USA
22.12/29/2008: “On the Transformative Potentials of the Dark Female Animal in the Daodejing,” Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. APA (American Philosophical Association), Philadelphia, USA
23.11/01/2008: “Still Only on Paper, or Not on Paper: The Artefactuality of Asian American Ontology Allegorized in the “Paper Sons,” East of California Asian American Studies Conference. University of Connecticut, Storr, USA
24.10/03/2008: “Still (Un)Written On the Face: On The Artifactual Originality of the “Paper Sons” of Chinese America as a Spectral Resource for Citational Politics To Come,” California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
25.09/13/2008: “Hiroshima notre amour: Can We Explore a Philopoetics of Elemental Cultivation with Duras, Irigaray, and Others?” Luce Irigaray Circle Conference 2008. Hofstra University and Stony Brook University, Long Island, USA
26.04/06/2008: “On a ‘Frog in the Pond’; or a Pond in the Frog as a Metaphor for ‘This’ World,” X-factors Conference: Terrestriality, Rinscription, Memory Regimes. A Workshop on “Climate Change” and the Archive. SUNY, Albany, USA 
27.03/22/2008: “Natural (?) Man and The Spirit of the Laws,” Roundtable on Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws. Society for Social and Political Philosophy. Skidmore College. Saratoga Spring, USA
28.03/20/2008: “Hiroshima notre amour: When Your Memories Turn up In My Mouth,” PhiloSOPHIA: A Feminist Society. 2nd Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA
29.02/23/2008: Commentator on the Panel on Levinas and Scepticism: “Levinasian Otherwise, Skepticism, and the Problem of Self-reference,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis. Memphis, USA
30.12/29/2007: “Towards a Globalization of the Feminist Analogical Imagination and Its Materiality,” Roundtable Discussion on Asian American Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy. APA (American Philosophical Association), Baltimore, USA
31.09/07/2007: Commentator on the Panel on Feminine Voice, Irigary, Opera and Hysteria. Annual Conference, The Irigaray Circle, NYC, USA
32.12/2006: Commentator on a panel on Asian American Philosophy. APA (American Philosophical Association), San Francisco, USA
33.10/2006: “Another 911: Post-9/11 Infantilization of Children’s Literature,” Southern Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, USA
34.10/2006: “Elizabethen Cogito Interruptus as a Feminist Rewrite of Cogito,” SPEP, Philadelphia, USA
35.06/2006: “If China Traveled to Descartes,” Critical Theories on Modernity, The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China
36.06/2006: “Silence and Modernity,” Critical Theories on Modernity, Three Gorges University, Hubei, China
37.06/2006: “If China Traveled to Descartes,” Cultural Critique, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
38.05/2006: “Black Eyes, White Hood: Political Phenomenology of Asian Eyelid Surgery,” Hampshire College, Amherst, USA
39.10/2005: “Beauvoir & Merleau-Ponty: Keeping Sartre in the Picture,” SPEP (Society for Phenomenological & Existentialist Philosophy), Salt Lake City, USA
40.10/2005: Guest lecture at Freshman Seminar on Philosophy and Animal, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
41.06/2005: “Black Eyes, White Hood,” Cultural Critique, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Central Chinese Normal University, Huazhong and Beijing, China
42.06/2005: “Being of Seeming: Deleuzian (Dis)appearance of Stereotype,” Politics of Being, Sydney, Australia
43.06/2005: “Buttery Flies,” IAPL (International Association for Philosophy and Literature), Finland
44.03/2005: “Buttery Flies: Ironies of M. Butterfly Read Through Rorty, Derrida and West,” APA, San Francisco, USA
45.02/2005: “Inconvenience of Being A Little Rational: Descartes” Provisional Ethics,” Midsouth Philosophy, Univ of Memphis, Memphis, USA
46.09/2004: “Black Eyes, White Hood,” California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
47.08/2004: “If Descartes Saw a Photograph…,” Department of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
48.05/2004: “The Child Who Questions: Transcultural/racial Renegades in Asian American Lit,” American Literature Association, Boston, USA
49.10/2003: “Philosophies in/of Comparison: What is Comparative Philosophy?,” Philosophy Circle, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
50.09/2003: “Transcultural Invention of American Literature: The Case of Linda Sue Park,” Southern Modern Language Association, Dallas, USA
51.05/2003: “Written once and for all [...]: Benjamin and de Man,” IAPL (International Association for Philosophy and Literature), Leeds, UK
52.05/2003: “Children, Deconstruct Komerica: Linda Sue Park and Children”s Literature,” American Literature Association, Boston, USA 
53.12/2002: “Cartesian Madness: Revisiting the Foucault and Derrida Debate,” APA (American Philosophical Association), Atlanta, USA
54.08/2002: “Measuring Madness,” International Institute for Field Being, Sian, China
55.11/2001: “The Ironic Muse,” Lyric Poetry, Institute for English Studies, The University of London, London, UK
56.11/2001: “The Other of Dialogue: On Silencing the Silence of the Other,” Dialogue and Difference, The University of London, London, UK
57.07/2001: “Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: Descartes,” ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue), Krakow, Poland
58.06/2001: “On Knell: Self-reflexivity of Funeral Melancholia,” The Inventions of Death, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
59.04/2001: “Sex and the City: Post-Feminist Body, Poetry of Choi,” Annual Korean Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
60.12/1999: “Derrida”s Song of the New International,” Derrida and Multi-culturalism, University of Derby, Derby, UK
61.06/1997: “Writing Matters: The Cartesian Body,” Body Matters II, University of Hull, Hull, UK


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