About
Stephanie S.E. Lee (she/her) studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, with a focus on print culture, transcultural mediation, and affect. Her dissertation, "Postcards across Empires: Gendered Labor and Reprographic Technologies between France and Japan, 1876-1945" asks how popular media—postcards, vernacular photography, advertisements, and magazines—inform the construction of ethno-national ideologies between France's Third Republic and Japan's Meiji and Taisho eras. This project draws on 20+ months of on-site research across French, Japanese, Korean, and English archives. She has presented her dissertation research at the Center for Creative Photography; the University of Chicago; and the Association for Asian Studies.
