Dr Hana Jee

Teaching

I mainly teach Korean language modules, along with selected modules in English linguistics.

• LAK4005M Korean Language Foundation 1
• LAK4008M Korean Language Foundation 2
• LAK5001M Korean Language and Society 1
• LAK5002M Korean Language and Society 2
• LAK6001M Korean Language Project 1
• LAK6002M Korean Language Project 2
  
  
• LAL4018M Language and Society
• LAL4021M Descriptive Grammar of English
• LAL6015M East Asian Linguistics and culture
• LAL6010M Dissertation

Publications and conferences

Journal papers

• Jee, H. (in prep) The secret of letter shapes: exploring grapho-phonemic systematicity in human writing system, Cognitive Approaches to Written Language, Language and Cognition.
• Jee, H., Tamariz, M., & Shillcock, R. (under review). Sounds you can see: Visually perceived effort in speaking informs the guessing of letter identity in learning to read. Cognition
• Jee, H. (under review). Orthography-Phonology Mapping in Chinese: Evidence for Characto-Syllabic Systematicity. Journal of Chinese Writing System.
• Jee, H. (2025). Universal Preference in Letter-Sound Mapping: Evidence from Cross-Cultural Behavioral Study. PLOS One.
• Jee, H. (2025). The Impact of Hangeul Acquisition on Grapho phonemic Systematicity, Hangeul, 86(1). 183-204.
• Jee, H. (2023). The Methods and Implications of Hangeul's Grapho-phonemic System, Hangeul, 84(2). 577-599.
• Jee, H., Tamariz, M., & Shillcock, R. (2023). Quantified Grapho-Phonemic Systematicity in Korean Hangeul. Asian Culture and History, 15(1), 1-9.
• Jee, H., Tamariz, M., & Shillcock, R. (2022). Systematicity in language and the fast and slow creation of writing systems: Understanding two types of non-arbitrary relations between orthographic characters and their canonical pronunciation. Cognition, 226, 105197.
• Jee, H., Tamariz, M., & Shillcock, R. (2022). Exploring meaning-sound systematicity in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 31(1), 45-71.

Book chapters

• Jee, H. (2024). The Systematicity of Hangul: Quantification and Comparison with Other Writing Systems. In H. K. Pae, H. Winskel, S. Y. Kim (Eds.), Handbook on the Korean Language and Literacy: Insights into Hangul and Text Processing, Springer Nature: Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88087-2_3 

Proceeding papers

• Jee, Tamariz, & Shillcock. (accepted) Yes, /b/ is similar to /p/ as much as 'B' is similar to 'P'. Proceedings of Association for Written Language and Literacy.
• Jee, H. (2025) Korean, the Language of Nuance and its Future in Globalisation. Global K-Culture Conference. Chungbuk National University.
• Jee, H. (2024) Your Justice is Different from My Justice: Quantifying Mental State Variation of Identical Words through a Case Study of Korean Newspaper Corpora. The International Academic Forum Art, Media & Culture.
• Jee, H, Tamariz, M. & Shillcock, R. (2024) Does Korean grapho-phonemic systematicity enhance spontaneous learning? Haralambous, Y. (Ed.) Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 771-780
• Jee, Tamariz, & Shillcock. (2022) Letters and their sounds are not perfectly arbitrary: Exploring grapho-phonemic systematicity in multiple orthography systems. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) Evolution of Language, 354-356
• Du, F., Jee, H., Tamariz, M., & Shillcock, R. (2022). Grapho-Syllabic Systematicity in Chinese: Chinese Pictographs Have a Non-Arbitrary relation with their Pronunciations. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).
• Jee, H, Tamariz, M. & Shillcock, R. Quantifying sound-graphic systematicity; Application to multiple phonographic orthographies. Haralambous, Y. (2021, February). Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, June 17-19, 2020. In G21C 2020: Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century (Vol. 4). Fluxus Editions.
• Jee, Tamariz, & Shillcock (2020) The meaning-sound systematicity also found in the Korean language. Cognitive Science
• Jee, H., Tamariz, M., & Shillcock, R. (2020). Quantifying sound-graphic systematicity and application on multiple phonographs. In CogSci.

Research grants

• Community Research Grants 2025-2026 York St John University. Title: Understanding (in)visible facilitators and challenges of refugees and overcoming structural barriers in York (CI).
• Students as Researchers Scheme 2023 School Research and Knowledge Transfer Lead and Research Office York St John University. Title: Grapho-phonemic systematicity in ideographic characters of China and Sino-graphic sphere (sole PI)
• Small Research Grant 2023-2025 British Academy / Leverhulme. Title: The secret of letter shapes: exploring grapho-phonemic systematicity in human writing systems (sole PI)
• Research Grant for Early Career Researchers 2023-2024 Hangul Association. Title: Impact of a new orthography acquisition on symbol perception (sole PI)
• Early career researchers 2022-2023 ESRC Sociolinguistic Futures between the UK and South Korea. Title: Your 'justice' is different from my 'justice': Exploring semantic differences between two Korean media over identical political concepts’ (sole PI)
• Early career researchers 2022-2023 ESRC Sociolinguistic Futures between the UK and South Korea. Title: Your 'feminism' is different from my 'feminism': Exploring semantic differences in the use of the term 'feminism' in South Korean media (CI).
• Students as Researchers Scheme 2022 School Research and Knowledge Transfer Lead and Research Office York St John University. Title: Your 'feminism' is different from my ‘'feminism': Exploring semantic differences in the use of the term 'feminism' in South Korean media (CI)

Public engagement

• Published audio file. 'Unlocking the Secret Code of Writing Systems' (Aug 20, 2024) SciPod | Arts and Humanities https://www.scipod.global/dr-hana-jee-unlocking-the-secret-code-of-writing-systems/
• Published video file: 'Do people who speak different languages share preferences for letter shapes?' (Mar 17, 2025) SciTube | Arts and Humanities https://scitube.io/dr-hana-jee-do-people-who-speak-different-languages-share-preferences-for-letter-shapes/

Invited talks

• Are Letter Shapes Arbitrary? Exploring grapho-phonemic systematicity in multiple orthography systems and hangeul, the Korean orthography, as its gold standard. Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series, The University of Edinburgh.
• Research-based Korean language class. Special Lecture for Croatian Hangeul School, Zagreb, Croatia.
• The Secret of Letter Shapes: Exploring Grapho-Phonemic Systematicity in Human Writing System, German Cognitive Linguistic Association, University of Osnabrück.

Professional activities

Honorary Secretary of British Association for Korean Language Education (BAKLE)

Editorial board member (section editor) of Forum for Anthropological Sciences

Communication Lead of Korean UK Academic Society (KUAS)