Dr. Jooyeon Rhee’s current research examines detective/crime fiction produced in colonial Korea. Focusing on the relationship between science and morality, crime and urbanization, Japanese militarism and various versions of Pan-Asian imaginations, Dr. Rhee explores these topics that are deeply associated with the formation of class, as well as racial and gender relations and discourses in colonial Korea.

This project’s main concerns are the underlying emotional and corporeal experiences of the colonized people expressed in detective/crimes fiction; it attempts to comprehend the political, social, and economic implications of criminal acts as embodied in the genre.