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

• 2022-2023 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Initiative - Conference on College Composition and Communication (02/02/2023)
• UTEP College of Liberal Arts Career Enhancement Awards - College of Liberal Arts (04/14/2022)
• 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)

• Coalition Building against Anti-Asian Racism: Interweaving Stories of Transnational Asian/American Feminist Survivance Peitho 26 1 (2024), Eunjeong Lee, Soyeon Lee, Minjung Kang.
• Community-Engaged User Experience Pedagogy: Stories, Emergent Strategy, and Possibilities Communication Design Quarterly 11 3 (2023), Soyeon Lee, Heather N. Turner, Emma J. Rose .
• 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.
• Languages, Infrastructures, and Ecologies: Toward Rematerializing Activisms Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric 22 1 (2022), Soyeon Lee.
• Understanding Multilingual Migrants through Discourse-based Interviews Composition Forum 49 (2022), Soyeon Lee.
• Building Students' Literate Agency through Makerspace Activities in a Two-Year College Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments 6 1 (2022), Soyeon Lee.
• Language Minorities’ Localization in COVID-19 Recovery: An Ecological Approach to Navigating Community-based Multilingual User Experience SIGDOC’21 Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (2021), Soyeon Lee.
• Constructing a Transnational-Multilingual Teacher Subjectivity in a First-Year Writing Class Utah State University Press (2021), Soyeon Lee.

• 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/Asian American Joy through Cooking, Food Sharing, Community Building (2022), Chen Chen, Soyeon Lee, Ashanka Kumarie.
• Co-designing Community-Engaged UX Pedagogy: Acknowledge, Assemble, Amplify, Advocate (2022), Heather Turner, Soyeon Lee, Emma Rose.
• Rethinking Climate Disaster Assistance Application Forms: Localized User Practices in Multilingual Contexts (2022), Soyeon Lee, Kathryn Lambrecht, Henry Covey.
• Multilingual Migrants and Textual Regimes of Disaster Recovery (2022), Soyeon Lee.
• Using Community‐based Approaches and User‐Centered Design Frameworks for Teaching Technical Writing to Diverse Students (2021), Soyeon Lee.
• Language Minorities’ Localization in COVID-19 Recovery: An Ecological Approach to Navigating Community-based Multilingual User Experience (2021), Soyeon Lee.

• Asian/American Rhetoric after the Atlanta shootings: Public memory, storytelling, and technologies