Hyojin LEE

Current position

9/2019-Present  Assistant Professor, Korean Studies at Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Previous assignments

11/2016-8/2019    Docent in Korea Studies, Cluster Asia and Europe, Universität Heidelberg, Germany

04/2015-03/2017   Part-time Researcher, Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies at Kansai University, Japan

04/2015-09/2016   Lecturer (East Asian Culture, Academic Korean language), Kansai University, Japan

10/2015-08/2016  Korean language instructor, King Sejong Institute Foundation of Osaka, Japan

04/2013-03/2016   Lecturer (Korean language instructor), Osaka College of Foreign Languages, Japan

Education and training

04/2012-03/2015   Ph.D., Department of East Asian Culture, Kansai University, Japan

                            Dissertation: “The Development of Modern Korean Confucian Studies at Keijō Imperial University,” selected as the best dissertation in the department in 2015.

04/2010-03/2012   M.S., Department of Cultural Interaction Studies in East Asia, Kansai University, Japan

                            Thesis: “Takahashi Tōru’s Korean Studies in the Modern Age”

03/2005-02/2009 B.S., Department of Korean Language & Literature, (Second Major: Department of Philosophy) Yeongnam Univerisity, Republic of Korea, Graduated first in class

Research grants and scholarships

From Sep 2023 to Feb 2026 PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di rilevante Interesse nazionale, En. Research projects of significant national interest) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Principle Investigator. “Making Korea a Religiously Plural Society? Historical, Legal, and Social Approaches.” (Project code: 2022S23SZZ)

From Sep 2023 to Dec 2023 Korean Foundation Fellowship (visiting scholar at Jeonbuk National University)

From 2020 to 2023 Academy of Korean Studies Grant: Seed Program, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, participated as a co-researcher

From 2019 to 2021 Academy of Korean Studies Grant: Seed Program, Heidelberg University, participated as a co-researcher

05/2018-04/2019   AKS Grant 2018, Competitive Research Funding

19/03-21/03/2018   Erasmus+ mobility to Stockholm University

04/2012-03/2015   Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakushō Scholarship)

04/2010-04/2012   Scholarship, Kansai University Global COE research center

Teaching Certificates

Teaching Certificate of Korean Language and Literature (No.16899), Education Office of Republic of Korea

Teaching Certificate of Philosophy (No.16899), Education Office of Republic of Korea

Korean Language Teacher Certificate (No.008-03-325), Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Korea

MEMBERSHIP

Scientific Committee member of the American Academy of Religion (Korean Religion Unit)

Scientific Committee Center for the Study of Lived Religion

Member of the Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia

Member of The Korean Society for the History of Medicine

Member of the European Association for Korean Language Education (EAKLE)

Member of The Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE)

Member of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Member of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM)