Remedying the Body: Plastic Surgery and the Politics of Embodiment in Korea

Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania

So-Rim Lee

Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Gender and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Korea, University of Pennsylvania

Laurie Lee

Assistant Professor of Music, Penn

Soosun You

James Joo-Jin Kim Korean Studies Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn

Emily Ng

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Penn

Presented in collaboration with James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies

In the forthcoming book Remedying the Body (Stanford University Press)

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So-Rim Lee is a Korea Foundation Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in how people marginalized on the basis of difference (in identity, health, appearance, and lived experience) resist the material and discursive oppression by caring for one another in radically compassionate ways. Her research addresses the politics of embodiment (living in and with a body) in Korea and the Korean diaspora from the intersection of performance studies, visual and media studies, queer politics, disability justice, and feminist activisms.

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