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About Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Gayoung Lee is a writer and researcher based in New York City.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Jennifer:

Literature August 18, 2022

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

R. F. Kuang

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In R. F. Kuang’s Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (Harper Voyager in 2022), we meet Robin Swift. Orphaned by Cholera in Canton …
Asian American Studies June 28, 2022

Climate Lyricism

Min Hyoung Song

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Climate Lyricism (Duke University Press, 2022), Min Hyoung Song models a climate change-centered reading practice that helps us better understand and respond to climate change by moving from forms …
Poetry June 6, 2022

Glory Hole

Kim Hyun

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In this episode, co-translators Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan discuss their Korean-to-English translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Released as part of The Pride List …
Literary Studies March 29, 2022

Literature in Motion

Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas

Ellen Jones

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas (Columbia University Press, 2022), Ellen C. Jones centers not just translation but multilingualism as both an artistic practice and scholarly lens through which to examine …
Literature March 23, 2022

Disorientation

A Novel

Elaine Hsieh Chou

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Disorientation: A Novel by Elaine Hsieh Chou (Penguin Press, 2022), we meet Ingrid Yang: an eighth-year PhD student in East Asian studies struggling to write a dissertation on (fictional) …
Asian American Studies February 11, 2022

Minor Transpacific

Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

David S. Roh

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford University Press, 2021), David S. Roh brings Asian Americanist study of Korean American literature in conversation with Asian studies scholars’ …
Asian American Studies January 31, 2022

Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

Sunny Xiang

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2020), Sunny Xiang reads the archives of US intelligence agencies alongside Asian American literature to …