Dr. Esther Kim Lee is Professor in the Department of Theater Studies the International Comparative Studies and the Director of Asian American & Diaspora Studies at Duke University. Note: Lee is the last name, and Kim is the middle/maiden name (i.e. Dr. Lee or Professor Lee), and the pronouns are she/her/hers.

Dr. Lee teaches and writes about theatre history, Asian American theatre, Korean diaspora theatre, and globalization and theatre.

Dr. Lee received her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Criticism, and Literature at The Ohio State University in 2000 and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2000 to 2012 and at the University of Maryland from 2013 to 2018.

She is the author of A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Award for Outstanding Book given by Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is the editor of Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2012). From 2013 to 2014, she was the Chief Editor of Theatre Survey, the flagship journal of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and served as ASTR’s Vice President for Publications from 2017 to 2019. Her latest published book is The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015), and her new book, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022.

Email: estherkimlee@gmail.com

https://theaterstudies.duke.edu/people/esther-kim-lee

Twitter: @estherkimlee