Lee Yongwoo is a media historian and cultural studies scholar, currently affiliated as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught critical media and cultural studies of modern Korea, visual studies, film theory and popular culture in East Asia, intellectual history of wartime Japan and post-war Korea, Korean contemporary art, postcolonial memory, historiography and translation at New York University, Cornell University and Sogang University’s Critical Global Studies Institute. He has served as guest curator for Asian Diva: The muse and the monster in Seoul Museum of Art (2017), the 1st Anren Biennale, Chengdu (2017), Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs at Para Site, Hong Kong (2016-17), Robert Mapplethorpe: More Life at Kukje Gallery, Seoul (2021) and Naming the Nameless at Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Bunker (2021).
His writings have been published in a number of books, journals and catalogues, including Superhumanity (2018), 2 Oder 3 Tiger: Koloniale Geschichten, Medien Und Moderne (2017), Suki Seokyeong Kang : Black Mat Oriole (2019), Divided We Stand: 9th Busan Biennale 2018 (2019), MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020: Haegue Yang―O₂ & H₂O (2020), Community of Parting (2020, 2021) and Asian Cinema journal.