Faculty Profile for Dr. Simon Lee

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Dr. Simon Lee
Assistant Professor — English
Flowers Hall 222
phone: (512) 245-8231
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 PhD in English, University of California, Riverside
MA in English, University of California, Riverside
BA in English and World Literature / Art History, Pitzer College

Teaching Interests

 20th and 21st-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Working-Class Literature, Cultural Studies

Research Interests

 Labor History, Working-Class Representation, Cultural Studies, Urbanism and Architecture

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Lee, S. (2020, August 21). A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism: On Selina Todd’s “Tastes of Honey.” The Los Angeles Review of Books.
  • Lee, S. (2019, April 3). What Makes an Immigrant Good? The Los Angeles Review of Books.
  • Lee, S. (2018). Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State. The Journal of Working-Class Studies, 3(1), 20–39.
  • Lee, S. (2018). “Look at the State of This Place!": The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-war Class Consciousness. In Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice (pp. 143–164). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96310-5_8
  • Lee, S. (2017). British Working-Class Literature: Paradox and Tension as Genre Motif. In Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives (pp. 159–195). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.16993/bam.g

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Constance Coiner Award for Best Dissertation, Working-Class Studies Association. 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Summer Research Grant, Graduate Student English Association, University of California. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: New York Writers Institute, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. 2010

Selected Grants

  • Lee, Simon. Dean's Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, Institutional (Higher Ed). (Funded: 2011). Grant.
  • Lee, Simon (Principal). Library Online Resource Grant, Texas State University, $48375. (Funded: June 2020 - Present). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Committee for MA in Literature
September 2020-May 2021
Member
Student Curriculum Subcommittee
September 2020-May 2021
Member
Advanced Studies Committee
September 2020-May 2021
Assistant Director of the University Writing Program
University of California, Riverside
2015-2016
GRE Preparation Instructor
Mentoring Research Internship Program at University of California, Riverside
2015-2016