Eunah Lee, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy, Stony Brook University
M.A. Philosophy, Seoul National University
B.A. Aesthetics, Seoul National University

Bio

Before joining St. Joseph’s University in 2017, she taught at Marquette University, Stony Brook University, and Suffolk Community College. She was also a visiting research fellow at Marburg University in Germany.

Teaching

Eunah Lee has taught a wide range of courses at introductory and advanced levels in philosophy, including Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Women. In addition to discipline staples, she taught East Asian popular culture and Korean cinema at Stony Brook University.

Scholarly & Professional Interests

Lee’s research interests focus on social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. She has organized and participated in various academic symposiums, workshops, and public events covering topics such as gender-based violence in war and armed conflicts, the representation of historical trauma, and the politics of public memorialization. Currently, she is working on a book tentatively titled “Contested Memory: Sexual Slavery, Redress Movement, and its Legacy,” which explores philosophical themes arising in the transnational redress movement concerning sexual slavery in WWII. Lee has received the 2024 St. Joseph’s University's Faculty Summer Research Grants.

Select Publications

“In the Name of Awareness: Audience, Venue, and the Politics of Witnessing Human Rights Violation” coauthored with Laura Barberán Reinares, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Duke University Press (Vol. 24, Issue 2, 2025).

"Narrative of traumatic memory in Spirits’ Homecoming (2016) and Tuning Fork (2014)", Asian Cinema, (Vol. 35, Issue 1, 2024).

“Love and Horror: In Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother and Lee Chang-Dong’s Poetry” in Philosophy, Film, and The Dark Side of Interdependence, edited by Jonathan Beever (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020).

“Race and the Self-Defeating Character of Kant’s Argument in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View” The New Polis, July 2020. 

“Integrity of Memory: ‘Comfort Women’ in Focus: Reflections on the Symposium at Marquette University” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol.13, Issue 33, No.2, August 17, 2015.