Jieun Lee is an Assistant Professor in Theater Studies at Emory University whose research spotlights transnational adoption intersected with drama, media, and activism in and out of South Korea (hereafter Korea). Lee is currently finalizing her first monograph entitled Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption (forthcoming with The Ohio State University Press, 2025). Her peer-reviewed articles and reviews have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Annual, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, and Women’s Studies, among others. Since 2014, she has served as a volunteer translator for the South Korean Feminist Journal ILDA.