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Sung-Ae Lee
Dr Sung-Ae Lee is a lecturer in Asian studies in the Department of International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her major research focus is on fiction, film and television drama of East Asia, with particular attention to Korea. Her research centres on relationships between cultural ideologies in Asian societies and representational strategies. She is interested in cognitive and imagological approaches to adaptation studies, Asian popular culture, Asian cinema, the impact of colonization in Asia, trauma studies, fiction and film produced in the aftermath of the Korean War and the literature and popular media of the Korean diaspora. Her work has appeared in Adaptation, Asian Ethnology, Children’s Literature in Education, Diaspora, International Research in Children’s Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, Mosaic and in essay collections such as Grimms’ Tales Around the Globe (Wayne State University Press, 2014), Fairy Tale Films Beyond Disney (Routledge, 2015), The Fairy Tale World (Routledge, 2019), The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2017) and The Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film and Television (Palgrave, 2019).