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Jongsoo Lee

Title: Professor

Department: Spanish

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Indiana University, 2000
    Major: Spanish
    Dissertation: Nezahualcoyotl as Emblem of the Colonial Legacy in Mexico
  • MA, University of Guadalajara, 1994
    Major: Language and Literature Teaching
  • BA, Seoul National University, 1991
    Major: Spanish

Current Scheduled Teaching

SPAN 5340.001Latin American Prehispanic and Colonial LiteratureSpring 2025
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureSpring 2025
SPAN 2040.009Intermediate SpanishFall 2024 Syllabus
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 5342.001Latin American Romanticism and RealismSpring 2024 SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4900.001Special ProblemsFall 2023 Syllabus
SPAN 4900.002Special ProblemsFall 2023 Syllabus
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 5340.001Latin American Prehispanic and Colonial LiteratureSpring 2023 SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4900.701Special ProblemsFall 2021 Syllabus
SPAN 5900.701Special ProblemsFall 2021
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.001Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 5342.001Latin American Romanticism and RealismSpring 2021 SPOT
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.001Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 5W1 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 4900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 5340.001Latin American Prehispanic and Colonial LiteratureFall 2019 SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4900.702Special ProblemsFall 2018 Syllabus
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.601Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 5W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 5342.001Latin American Romanticism and RealismSpring 2018 SPOT
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.601Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 8W1 2017 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 5200.001Seminar in SpanishSpring 2017 SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.601Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 8W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.007Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.601Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 8W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3130.602Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 8W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3060.005Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2015 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2015 Syllabus
SPAN 5342.001Latin American Romanticism and RealismSpring 2015
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 3130.001Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 8W1 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 3130.002Topics in Latin American CultureSummer 8W1 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 5200.002Seminar in SpanishSpring 2014
SPAN 5200.792Seminar in SpanishSpring 2014
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 4980.001Experimental CourseSummer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 4980.002Experimental CourseSummer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 4900.001Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2013
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 5342.001Latin American Romanticism and RealismSpring 2013
SPAN 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2013
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2012 Syllabus
SPAN 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2012
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2012 Syllabus
SPAN 4980.001Experimental CourseSummer 5W1 2012
SPAN 4980.002Experimental CourseSummer 5W1 2012
SPAN 4980.003Experimental CourseSummer 5W1 2012
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2012 Syllabus
SPAN 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2012
SPAN 5200.003Seminar in SpanishSpring 2012
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureSpring 2012 Syllabus
SPAN 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2011
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2011 Syllabus
SPAN 4980.001Experimental CourseSummer 5W1 2011
SPAN 3070.006Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2011 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2011 Syllabus
SPAN 3160.001Latin American Culture and CivilizationFall 2010 Syllabus
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2010 Syllabus
SPAN 3040.001Mexican Culture and CivilizationSummer 5W1 2010
SPAN 5342.001Latin American Romanticism and RealismSpring 2010
SPAN 4900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2010
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2009 Syllabus
SPAN 4010.001Aspects of Contemporary Mexican CultureSummer 5W1 2009
SPAN 3040.002Mexican Culture and CivilizationSummer 5W1 2009
SPAN 5341.001Latin American Colonial Literature IISpring 2009
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2009
SPAN 3040.001Mexican Culture and CivilizationSummer 5W1 2008
SPAN 5340.001Latin American Colonial Literature ISpring 2008
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2008
SPAN 3050.002Readings in Hispanic LiteratureFall 2007
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2007
SPAN 3070.003Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeSummer 5W1 2007
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2007
SPAN 5200.002Seminar in SpanishSpring 2007
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureFall 2006
SPAN 3050.002Readings in Hispanic LiteratureFall 2006
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2006
SPAN 3160.002Latin American Culture and CivilizationSpring 2006
SPAN 5200.002Seminar in SpanishSpring 2006
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureFall 2005
SPAN 3050.002Readings in Hispanic LiteratureFall 2005
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2005
SPAN 3070.003Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2005
SPAN 5200.004Seminar in SpanishSpring 2005
SPAN 3060.002Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2004
SPAN 3050.001Readings in Hispanic LiteratureFall 2004
SPAN 4360.001Survey of Spanish American LiteratureFall 2004

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Galen Brokaw & Jongsoo Lee. (2016). Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy. 306 Pages. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
  • Lee, J. (2015). The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic Politics, Religion, and Nahua Poetics in Mexico (Paperback Edition: Originally published in 2008). 294. University of New Mexico Press.
  • Jongsoo Lee & Galen Brokaw. (2014). Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives. 276 pages, 25 illustrations and 3 tables.. Boulder, University Press of Colorado.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2008). The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic Politics, Religion, and Nahua Poetics in Mexico. 291 pages, 41 drawings, 1 halftones, 1 map. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press. http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=11688163176811
  • Book Chapter

  • Jongsoo Lee. (2016). Colonial Writings and Indigenous Politics in New Spain: Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Chronicles and Teotihuacan Cacicazgo. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy. 122-152 (12,243 words). Tucson, University of Arizona Press. https://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2612.htm
  • Galen Brokaw and Jongsoo Lee. (2016). Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Colonial Historiography from the Conquest to the Present; Chronology and Glossary. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy. 3-28: 283-294. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2014). Aztec Triple Alliance as a Colonial Transformation of Prehispanic Political and Tributary System. In Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives. Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives. 63-91 (11,324 words). Boulder, University Press of Colorado.
  • Jongsoo Lee & Galen Brokaw. (2014). Texcocan Studies from the Colonial to the Present Times. In Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives. Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives. 1-24 (9,532 words). Boulder, University Press of Colorado.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2007). Orientalist Universalism: Aztec Time and History in Octavio Paz's Piedra del sol.
  • Book Review

  • Lee, J. (2020). Review of The Legacy of Rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s “Historia de la nación chichimeca.” By Leisa A. Kauffmann. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019.. 101.1
  • Lee, J. (2020). Review of The ‘Florentine Codex’: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Edited by Jeanette Favrot Peterson and KevinTerraciano.. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 97.8 1409-1411.
  • Lee, J. (2018). Review of Political Strategies in Pre-Colombian Mesoamerica. Edited by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron.. The Americas. 75.1 184-86.
  • Lee, J. (2015). Review of Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion.. Journal of Anthropological Research. 71 (1) 122-123.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2014). Review of Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of Rememberance. The Americas. 71 (2) 359-60.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2010). Review of The Search for the Codex Cardona. (54.2) 125-126.
  • Journal Article

  • Lee, J. (2023). Toward a New Interpretation of Prehispanic Discourses: Reconstructing the Huehuetlatolli in the Prehispanic Context. 6 (2) 101-122. London, Humanities Bulletin.
  • Lee, J. (2021). European Appropriation of Prehispanic Speeches: Reexamining Huehuetlatolli as a Colonial Project. 4 (2) 32-58. London, Humanities Bulletin.
  • Lee, J. (2020). “Building Mexico as a Creole Nation: Anti-Exploitative Colonialism and Mestizaje in the historical novel Xicotencatl.”. Ciberletras. 43 109-123. New York, Lehman College at New York. https://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/
  • Lee, J. (2017). The Europeanization of Prehispanic tradition: Bernardino de Sahagún’s transformation of Aztec priests (tlamacazque) into classical wise men (tlamatinime). Colonial Latin American Review. 26.3 (2017): 291-312. London and New York, Taylor and Francis.
  • Lee, J. (2015). Emergence and Progress of Contemporary Nahua Literature: Frayel Maria Garibay Kintana, Miguel León-Portilla, and the Prehispanic Past. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. (39.1) 29-58 (10,920 words).
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2015). Colonización y poscolonialismo del pasado prehispánico: Quetzalcoatl y su transformación en The Epic of American Civilization de José Clemente Orozco y Terra Nostra de Carlos Fuentes. In Colonialidad y poscolonialidad de América Latina. Asian Journal of Latin American Studies. (28.2) 37-62 (9,582 words).
  • JongsooLee. (2014). Mestizaje and the Creation of Mexican National Literature. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. (91.6) 889-912 (11,370 words). London, Taylor and Francis.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2009). The Ten Plagues in New Spain: Franciscan Colonial Project in Motolinia's Memoriales. 36-49 (4,786 words).
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2007). Analyzing Nezahualcoyotl's Texcoco: Politics, Conquests, and Laws.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2006). Inventing National Identity: Creole Treatment of Mexico's Indigenous Past in Xicotencatl.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2004). Nezahualcoyotl and the Notion of Individual Authorship in the Nahuatl Poetry.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2004). The Colonial Legacy in Cardenal's Poetry: Images of Quetzalcoatl, Nezahualcoyotl, and the Aztecs.
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2003).
  • Jongsoo Lee. (2003). A Re-Interpretation of Nahuatl Poetics: Rejecting the Image of Nezahualcoyotl as a Peaceful Poet.
  • Jongsoo lee. (2003). Westernization of Nahuatl Religion: Nezahualcoyotl's Unknown God.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Lee, J., "Perpetuating Colonial Image of the Aztecs," University of North Texas, $5000.00 Funded. (2014 - 2014).
  • Grant - Research

  • Lee, J., "Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy," University of North Texas, $1000.00 Funded. (2015 - 2015).
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