Mi Jeong Lee specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century British and Anglophone literature. She is broadly interested in experimental representations of the geopolitically organized world, as well as the mutually constitutive relationship between global spaces and the subject. In her dissertation, she proposed a new way of thinking about the global in the British modernist novel that focuses on diegetic form, using distance—aesthetic, planetary, colonial, and wartime distances—as both an object and method of study. More recently, she has been looking at the ways in which global and planetary scale puts pressure on the novel form, including narrative perspective and characterization, especially in situations of catastrophe. Her publications include: “The Ugly Politics of (Im)passivity in The Secret Agent, or Why Conrad’s Anarchists are Fat” (Journal of Modern Literature 44.3, 2021), “John Wick’s Blank Cosmopolitanism and the Global Spatiality of the Wickverse” (in The Worlds of John Wick, Indiana UP, 2022), “Lines, Borders, and Ties: Circumventing the West in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land” (The Journal of English Language and Literature 67.3, 2021), and “The Failures of Citizenship in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight” (Studies in Modern Fiction 27.3, 2020). She received a teaching award from SNU’s College of Humanities in 2022.