Jerry Won Lee
Jerry Lee, a male of East Asian heritage who is leading this workshop
Dr. Jerry Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He currently serves as the Director of the Program in Global Languages and Communication, as Director of the Critical Inquiries in Multilingualism Research Cluster, and is an affiliate faculty in the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and core faculty in the PhD Program in Culture and Theory.
Title:Inter/Multidisciplinary Scholarship and Intellectual Responsibility
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021, 5-6 pm EST
Description: Institutions frequently affirm the importance of inter- and multidisciplinary scholarship. The official discourse of inter/multidisciplinary scholarship frames it as a forward-thinking move to promote inquiry not confined to outdated disciplinary boundaries. The unofficial reality is that inter/multidisciplinarity is endemic to an oversaturated academic job market in which candidates are frequently expected to have not only secondary areas of specialization in addition to a primary area but instead multiple primary areas of specialization. Meanwhile, it is not always clear to emerging scholars what it means to actually do inter/multidisciplinary research. This workshop is designed to help graduate students think through the complexities of pursuing inter/multidisciplinary scholarship in a manner that is not only successful but, more importantly, responsible.
This workshop is limited to 15 participants.