Curriculum vitae

Hyunseon Lee

Dr. Hyunseon Lee

Languages:

  • Korean: native speaker
  • German: near native speaker
  • English: fluent
  • Chinese: reading & writing

Current Affiliation

1) School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
Affiliated Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS),
School of Advance Studies, University of London

2) Philosophische Fakultät (former Dept. of Languages, Literature & Media Studies), University of Siegen, Germany
Postdoctoral Research Fellow qualifying as University Professor (‘Habilitation’) 2010/11: Scholarship for ‘Habilitation’, University of Siegen

Previous Employment

  • January 2005 to December 2006 Dept. of  Language, Literature and Media Studies, University Siegen, Germany
    Funded by Lise-Meitner Scholarship of the Ministry of Science NRW, Germany
    Grant and support for my  Postdoctoral Thesis (“Habilitation”)
  • July 2002 to December 2005 The Human Collaborative Research Centre ‘Media Upheaval’, University Siegen, Germany
    Researcher/Lecturer Project A1 Media Anthropology & Media Avantgarde. Comparative Culture Studies Germany- Japan (in Cooperation with Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
    Leader of Project: Prof. Dr. K Ludwig Pfeiffer / Prof. Dr. Ralf Schnell
  • April 1999 to March 2004 Dept. of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University  Dortmund, Germany
    Freelance Lecturer
  • Sept 2001 to June 2002 Columbia University, New York, USA
    Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Literature & Society
    Hosted by Prof. Dr. Andreas Huyssen
  • April 2001 to June 2002 Dept. of  Language, Literature and Media Studies, University Siegen, Germany
    Grant funded by Lise-Meitner Scholarship of the Ministry of Science NRW, Germany
  • November 2000 to October 2001 College of Humanities at the Seoul National University, South Korea Postdoc at the Deparment of German Studies
    Hosted by Prof. Dr. Sam-Whan Ahn
  • March 1998 to February 2000 Postdoc at the Graduate School of Literature and Communication “Intermedialität” Dept. of Language, Literature & Media Studies, University Siegen

Education

  • Jan 1998  University Dortmund PhD, Department of German Languages & Literature. Faculty of Cultural Studies, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Link
    Thesis title: Geständniszwang und 'Wahrheit des Charakters' in der Literatur der DDR. Diskursanalytische Fallstudien  (Forced Confession and ‘Truth of the Character‘ in the Literature of the German Democratic Republic. Discourse-Analytical Case Studies)
  • 1993- 1997 Ruhr-University Bochum, Free University of Berlin, Germany
    Doctoral Studies: German Language & Literature; Theatre-, Film-, & TV-Science, hosted by Prof. Dr. Horst Domdey
  • 1991 – 1993 Moving to Germany, accreditation of Korean MA in Germany
  • 1988 – 1991 Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea MA at the Department of German Language and Literature. The Graduate School of Yonsei University
    Dissertation: Erwin Strittmatters Roman  ‘Ole Bienkopp’ and the Socialist Human Portrait
  • 1984 – 1988  Yonsei University, Seoul
    BA at the Dept. of German Language and Literature, College of Liberal Arts

Grants, Academic Honours & Memberships

Memberships

  • Since 2011 NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Since 2010 AAS Association of Adaptation Studies
  • Since 2010 GfM Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft [Sociey for Media Studies]
  • Since 2005 Member, Korean Association for German Studies
  • Since 2000 Associate Researcher, Institute of Media Art, Yonsei-University in Seoul, South-Korea
  • 1993 - 2002 Member, Internationaler Arbeitskreis Literatur und Politik in Deutschland
 

Grants

  • 10/2010–10/11 University of Siegen, Germany; Scholarship for ‘Habilitation’
  • 02/2007– Visiting Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
  • 2006 Lise-Meitner Scholarship of the Ministry of Science NRW, Germany
  • 9 - 10/2005 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Literature/German Literature Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan
  • 4. 2001 – 6. 2002 Lise-Meitner Scholarship of the Ministry of Science NRW, Germany
  • 2001 - 2002 Post-Doc sponsored by Korea Research Foundation Dept. German Studies, College of Humanities Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Dec 1998 Grant of 10.000DM- in support of my PhD Thesis by Deutsche Forschungs Gesellschaft DFG  (Federal Ministry of Science)
  • 1998 - 2000 Postdoc at the Graduate School of Literature and Communication “Intermedialität” Dept. of  Literature & Media Studies, University Siegen
  • 1995 - 1996 Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Literature and Communication “Intermedialität“, Dept. of Literature and Media, University Siegen
  • 1993 - 1994 Doctoral Scholarship, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation,  Köln, Germany

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