Hyangjin Lee is a Professor at the College of Intercultural Communication at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. At Rikkyo, she teaches courses on North Korean, South Korean, and Japanese cinema and cultural studies. Previously, she taught in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield and was the 2014 Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies at Harvard University.

Professor Lee currently serves on the advisory board of the Pyongchang International Peace Film Festival and a Program Adviser of the Showroom Cinema in the UK. She previously served as Executive Director of the UK Korean Film Festival

Professor Lee received her PhD from the School of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds in 1998. Her scholarship includes gender and sexuality, and identity politics in national cinemas and transnational media culture in Asia. She is the author of Korean Cinema: North KoreaSouth KoreaTransnational (Misuzu Shobo, 2018), The Sociology of the Korean Wave: Fandom, Family and Multiculturalism (Iwanami, 2008) and Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics (Manchester University Press, 2001), and has published journal articles and book chapters on the cinematic representation of war memories, gender, sexuality and transnationalism in East Asia, and the Korean Wave.