Dr. Esther Kim Lee joins the faculty of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professor Lee will teach courses in the Theatre and Performance Studies program.

Esther Kim Lee received her Ph.D. in theatre history, literature, and criticism from the Ohio State University and taught theatre and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for over twelve years.  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 ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education), and the editor of Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2012). She is currently the Editor of Theatre Survey, the flagship journal of the American Society for Theatre Research.