Gui Hwan Lee, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at James Madison University. As an interdisciplinary music theorist, Lee explores intercultural creativity in contemporary art music, film soundtracks, and East-Asian popular cultures. Regarding scholarly outputs, Lee has recently published in-depth audiovisual analyses of Parasite (2019) (Music and the Moving Image, forthcoming) and Princess Mononoke (1997) (Music Analysis, forthcoming). In addition, Lee has also been working on Unsuk Chin's compositions, K-pop songs, medieval fantasy game music, and inclusive pedagogies for music theory.

PhD in Critical Music Studies (2023) at Stony Brook University; MM in Musicology and MM Music Theory (2017) at the University of Cincinnati; BM in Violin Performance (2012) at Kyung Hee University. 

Gui Hwan is enthusiastic about various 'classics,' including (but not limited to) Hollywood classics, fantasy classics like The Lord of the Rings, anime classics like Studio Ghibli films, and video game classics like the Dark Souls series.