Letters to Y-Dang

James Kyung-Jin Lee is professor and chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His research lies at the intersection of literary narrative, disability studies, and medical humanities. His book Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority (Temple UP, 2022), received an Honorable Mention in the Literary Studies category from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2024 and was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022.