Jongsook Lee (Korean: 이종숙; Hanja: 李鍾淑; Korean pronunciation: [i.dzoŋ.ɕ͈uk]; born 1952) is a South Korean professor emerita in the Department of Liberal Arts at Seoul National University (SNU) and is a translator. She served as a full professor at SNU and as a visiting professor at University of Oxford and Cambridge. She also served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University and was affiliated with the Folger Shakespeare Library. She studied William Butler Yeats for her master’s degree under the guidance of her advisor Professor Donggyu Hwang and researched Ben Jonson’s poesis for her doctoral degree with Thomas Clayton as her supervisor. Lee is well known in Korea for her media appearance on the Education Broadcasting System (EBS) where she lectured on Shakespeare, titled Shakespeare, the Birth of Tragedy.[1]
