Julia Sun-Joo Lee (born 1976) is an American writer and professor of English at Loyola Marymount University.
[1] She grew up in Palms and attended an all-girls Catholic high school in the era of the killing of Latasha Harlins and the Rodney King riots.
[3][5] She attended graduate school at Harvard University, where she developed an interest in African-American literature and studied under Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Jamaica Kincaid.
[6] The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel (2010) examines the influence of slave narratives written in the United States on various works of British fiction, such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thackeray's Pendennis, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.
[6][12] Biting the Hand (2023), a memoir by Lee, deals with Korean-American identity from her childhood to college years to professional life.