Senior Lecturer in Korean, Coordinator of Korean Language Program

Fall 2024 Office Hours: MF 8:20-8:50 am + MF 12:10pm-1:10pm or by appointment.

Heeju Lee holds a PhD in Korean Linguistics and MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL from University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining Boston University, she taught (non)-heritage Korean language and linguistics courses at UCLA. Her research interests include discourse analysis, second/heritage language learning and pedagogy, corpus linguistics, and intonation/pronunciation. 

Heeju teaches Korean language and content courses at all levels at BU. She has recently developed third- and fourth-year content courses including Korean for the Professions, Korean through Popular Music, and Korean Conversation and Discourse.