Peter H. Lee

College of St. Thomas,
St. Paul, MN
BA 1951

Yale University,
MA 1953

Ludwig-Maximilian University,
Munich, Germany
PhD 1958

University of Fribourg,
Switzerland

University of Milan,
University of Florence,
University of Perugia,
Italy

Wadham College,
Oxford University,
England

Employment:

Assistant Professor of Korean and Japanese, Columbia University.

Assistant and Associate Professor of Korean, University of Hawaii.

Visiting Professor of Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley.

Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Chair, Dept. of East Asian Literature and Dept. of East Asian Lang. & Lit.,University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA.

Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA.

Awards:

Publications:

Studies in Old Korean Poetry. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1959.

Anthology of Korean Poetry: From the Earliest Era to the Present. New York: John Day, 1964. Revised edition as Poems from Korea: A Historical Anthology. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974.

Korean Literature: Topics and Themes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965.

Lives of Eminent Korean Monks. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-Century Korean Stories. Honlulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974. Revised edition, 1986.

Songs of Flying Dragons: A Critical Reading. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Korean translation, Seoul: T'aehaksa, 1998.

Celebration of Continuity: Themes in Classic East Asian Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

The Silence of Love: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry. Honlulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980.

Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1981. Revised edition, 1990.

A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany: The P'aegwan chapki of O Sukkwon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Dynasty Poets. Honlulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.

Sourcebook of Korean Civilization. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993-96. Italian translation, Fonti per lo Studio della Civilta' coreana, 2 vols. Milano: O barra O, 2000-2001.

Sources of Korean Tradition. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997-2001.

The Record of the Black Dragon Year. Seoul: Institute of Korean Studies and Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, 2000.

Myths of Korea. Somerset and Seoul: Jimoondang International, 2000.

Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2005.

Oral Literature of Korea. Edison/Seoul: Jimoondang, 2005.

Articles and translations in: Dictionary of Ming Biography; Dictionary of Oriental Literatures; Elek Book of Oriental Verse; Encyclopedia Britannica; Encyclopedia of Asian History; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century; Hudson Review; Journal of the American Oriental Society; McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography; Monumenta Serica; Oriens Extremus; Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation; Poetry (Chicago); Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; and T'oung Pao.

Reviews in: Asian Perspectives; Comparative Literature; Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies; Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of the American Oriental Society; Korea Journal; Korean Studies; Oriens Extremus; and World Literature Today.

Courses:

Readings in Modern Korean Literature

Korean Literature in Translation, Traditional and Modern

Bibliography and Methods of Research

Seminar: Literary Translation from Korean

Seminar: Topics in Modern Korean Literature

Seminar: Classical Korean Fiction

Seminar: Classical Korean Poetry

Seminar: Topics in East Asian Literary History

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