Soyeon Lee is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research interests include technical communication and user experience studies. She earned her Graduate Certificate in Teaching Technical Communication at Texas Tech University in 2021.

• ACM SIGDOC 2021 Best Paper Award - ACM SIGDOC (10/01/2021-10/31/2021)

• Ph D in English with a concentration in Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy, University of Houston (2020)
• MA in Comparative Literature , Yonsei University (2005)
• BA in English, French, Media Arts , Yonsei University (2003)

• Community-Engaged User Experience Pedagogy: Stories, Emergent Strategy, and Possibilities Communication Design Quarterly 11 3 (2023), Soyeon Lee, Heather N. Turner, Emma J. Rose .
• Coalition Building against Anti-Asian Racism: Interweaving Stories of Transnational Asian/American Feminist Survivance Peitho 26 1 (2023), Eunjeong Lee, Soyeon Lee, Minjung Kang.
• Disrupting Textual Regimes of Climate Disaster Recovery Governance Through Translation Technical Communication Quarterly 32 3 (2023), Soyeon Lee.
• ‘We are What We Eat’: Adopting Recipe Writing as a Boundary Object of First-Year Writing and Nutrition Courses Across the Disciplines 19 (1/2) (2022), Soyeon Lee, Shuo Zhang.
• Translingual and Translational Practices as Rhetorical Care Technologies in COVID-19 Recovery Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization 11 1 (2022), Soyeon Lee.

• “‘Hate’ Discourses as Public Rhetorics and Transnational Asian/American Women in the 2021 Atlanta Spa Shootings” (2024), Soyeon Lee, Eunjeong Lee.
• “Towards Plural Productivities: Critically Re-envisioning Graduate Writing Development Across Contexts” (2024), Soyeon Lee, Chimee Adioha, Hem Pandey, Maria Perez-Piza, David Tver.
• Redressing Language Bias in the Field of Professional, Technical & Scientific Communication (2023), Volume Charleston, SC, Lawrence Lawrence, Suzanne Black, Oscar Garcia, Laura Gonzales, Soyeon Lee, Diane , Nora K. Rivera, Cecilia Shelton, Josephine Walwema.
• Boundary Objects and Translational Activities of Multilingual Migrants in Disaster Recovery Communication (2022), Soyeon Lee.
• Intercultural Civic Design and Community Engagement: An Avenue for Justice-Oriented and Empathy-Driven Socio-Political Change (2022), Soyeon Lee, Jose Villalobos.

• Asian/American Rhetoric after the Atlanta shootings: Public memory, storytelling, and technologies (02/13/2023 - 05/01/2025) Conference on College Composition & Communication (NPO)