Rachel Lee

Rachel Lee
Interim Director, CSW, Winter/Spring 2013
Associate Professor, English and Gender Studies
rlee@women.ucla.edu
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Lee, Associate Professor, English and Gender Studies, UCLA, specializes in Asian American literature and performance culture. She is the author of The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (Princeton University Press, 1999), which addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Her essays on location, territory, and critical regionalism in the context of Asian American cultural criticism have appeared in The Women's Review of Books, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, and various anthologies. Her more recent work includes an essay on women of color in relation to the institution of women's studies (Meridians, Fall 2000; reprinted in Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, Duke University Press), and a collection of edited essays on Asian Americans and cyberspace titled Asian America.Net (Routledge University Press, 2003). 

 

Her current project is the CSW research colloquium 2011-13, Life, (Un)Ltd, which brings together scholars from public health, humanities, social sciences and life sciences to develop an interdisciplinary, feminist approach to developments in the biosciences that have effects on clinical practice, human rights, as well as philosophical and artistic practices. More info