Tina Lee

PhD Candidate
dktina.lee@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Areas of Interest

  • 20th century Korean art and literature
  • Korean history and material culture
  • Politics of space and everyday life
     

Working Dissertation

Title

Living Rooms: Artists, Writers and the Home Interior in 1980s Korea

Supervisors

Janet Poole

Biography

Tina Lee is interested in cultural representations of the modern home interior and their competing accounts of Korea's economic development in the late 20th century. For her research, she draws upon industry magazines and journals, fiction by women authors and socio-political works of art, among other sources.  

Education

MA, Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London
BFA, History of Art and Visual Art, Concordia University
BA, English, York University