1. Joo Heung Lee
1804 Burning Bush Lane
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
JooHeungLee@yahoo.com
Areas of Specialization
History of Philosophy; Ethics; 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Areas of Competence
World Religions; Philosophy of Religion; Social & Political Philosophy
Teaching Competence
Formal Logic; Critical Thinking; General Humanities
Education
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University, May 1999. Field: Philosophy.
B.A. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1991. Field: Philosophy.
B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1989. Field: Natural Science.
Teaching Experience
Oakton Community College 2006-2014 Associate Professor Humanities & Philosophy
• Courses taught include: General Humanities, Formal Logic, Ethics, World Religions,
Philosophy of Religion, and Honors World Religions
Wright College 1999-2006 Assistant Professor Humanities & Philosophy
• Courses taught include: General Humanities, Formal Logic, Introduction to Philosophy,
Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Social & Political Philosophy
Oakton Community College 1999-2000 Instructor (part-time)
Philosophy
Penn State University 1994-1998 Instructor (as graduate student)
Philosophy
Administrative Experience
Oakton Community College 2009-2013 Co-Chair Humanities & Philosophy
• My primary responsibilities were coordination of the adjunct faculty, scheduling, and
departmental marketing through avenues including the internet and special events. In
addition, I was the departmental assessment coordinator and an active member of the
Faculty Senate and the Program Review Committee.
Wright College 2005-2006 Chair Humanities & Philosophy
• My primary responsibilities were the coordination of the adjunct faculty, scheduling, and
overseeing faculty searches. In addition, I was involved with several departmental,
college-wide, and district-wide committees on issues ranging from assessment to
technology in the classroom.
Publication Record
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Beyond Control and Responsibility: The Beauty of Mercy,” Studies in Law, Politics, & Society,
vol. 37 (2005), edited by Austin Sarat, Amherst College.
“Sovereign ‘Subjectivity’ in Bataille,” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol.
32, no. 1 (2001): 36 (14 pages).

2. Biographical entry on Georges Bataille in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edition
(September 1, 1999), edited by Robert Audi, Cambridge University Press.
"The Time of Solitude in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Remembrance of Things Past," in
Memory, History, Critique: European Identity at the Millennium, Proceedings of the Fifth
Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, August 19-24 1996
[CDROM].
Book Reviews
Kant's Compatibilism, by Hud Hudson, The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 49, no. 4, June 1996,
pp. 661-663.
Invited Papers and Lectures
“Beyond Control and Responsibility: The Beauty of Mercy,” National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Seminar on Punishment, Amherst, MA, June, 2004.
“The Philosophy of Love,” Wright College Great Books Symposium, Chicago, IL, March, 2004.
“Gods and Monsters,” Wright College Great Books Symposium, Chicago, IL, October, 2001.
“Memory, Computers, and Identity at the New Millennium,” Wright College Great Books
Symposium, Chicago, IL, November, 1999.
"The Smile of a Dog: Is the Lightness of Being so Unbearable?," University of Chicago Slavic
Forum, Chicago, IL, April, 1997.
"Beyond the Discursive Community," Hermeneutic Extravaganza: Authors, Readers, and Text,
University Park, PA, September 1996.
"The Time of Solitude in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Remembrance of Things Past,"
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 1996.
"The Worthlessness of Epistemology," The Limits of Philosophy (Depaul University), Chicago, IL,
May 1996.
"The Poverty of the Real: Baudrillard's Response to Foucault," The International Association for
Philosophy and Literature, Fairfax, VA, May 1996.
"The Future of Philosophy," The Future of Philosophy, the University, and the Institutionalization
of Theory, University Park, PA, April 1996.
"Bergson and Proust on Memory and the Superfluous," The International Association for
Philosophy and Literature, Villanova, PA, May 1995.
"Death and Community in Bataille and The Brothers Karamazov," Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy, Seattle, WA, October 1994.
"Levinas and/or Irigaray," Feminism: the Third Wave, University Park, PA, April 1993.
References
Joi Smith, President, Oakton Community College: joismith@oakton.edu
Linda Korbel, Dean, Division of Humanties, Languages, & the Arts: lkorbel@oakton.edu
Mohamed Mehdi, Co-Chair, Department of Humanties & Philosophy: mmehdi@oakton.edu