Research interests
- Asian American and Asian Diasporic literature and culture; Pacific Islander literature and culture; US imperialism and militarism; feminist science, technology and medicine studies; food studies
Sang Eun Eunice Lee's research focuses on literatures and cultures in and around the Pacific Ocean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Focusing on three matters—meatpacking byproducts, radioactive materials and microplastics—she traces the ideological foundation for imperial expansion and its incommensurability with indigenous and diasporic communities' worldviews and ways of life.
