Sabrina Lee (she/her) | Department of English

Office Hours

By appointment. Please email me for the Zoom link.

PhD Candidate, literary studies with graduate minor in Asian American Studies

Research Interests

Global Modernism, Magic & the Occult, Critical Theory, Asian American Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Digital Humanities, Intellectual History, the Literary Critic

Research Description

My dissertation, "Otherworldly Modernism: Magic, Mediums, and Coloniality," takes magic as a point to entry to analyze the production of global modernisms. Drawing on critical ethnic and decolonial studies I analyze how North Atlantic modernist authors, artists, and audiences looked outside the West to produce modernity and find meaning in it.

Education

MA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Grants

Gragg Barr Scholarship, UIUC, Fall 2022
LAS Fellowship, UIUC, Fall 2021–Spring 2022
Gragg Barr Scholarship, UIUC, Spring 2020
Nicholson Graduate Fellowship for Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, UIUC, Spring 2020, delayed until Summer 2021
Kirkpatrick Fellowship, UIUC, Fall 2015–Spring 2016

Awards and Honors

Ruth Schurman Brookens Graduate Award for the teaching of first year writing (Spring 2021)

Courses Taught

Instructor of Record

RHET 101: Principles of Writing
RHET 102: Principles of Research
RHET 105: Writing and Research
ENGL 109: Introduction to Fiction, Advanced Composition
ENGL 213: Global Modernist Literature and Culture

Teaching Assistant

AAS 100: Introduction to Asian American Studies

Additional Campus Affiliations

Department of Asian American Studies
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Highlighted Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cowritten with Ted Underwood and David Bamman. "The Transformation of Gender in English Language Fiction." Cultural Analytics, 13 Feb. 2018. DOI: 10.22148/16.019.

WEBSITE ARTICLES

"Reflections on the School of Criticism and Theory, Summer 2021." Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. 2021.
"Localizing Planetarity." Kritik, 27 Apr. 2021. Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
"Structuralism's Promise and Peril." Kritik, 22 Sept. 2020. Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
"Creative and Collaborative: Trying out Careers in Publishing." GradLIFE Blog, 17 Jun. 2019. UIUC Graduate College.
Transcription, translation, and explication of Marcel Proust's letter to Jacques Hébertot (31 Jan. 1917). "Proust and the Great War (Part 2)," edited by François Proulx. UIUC RBML Non Solus Blog, 19 Feb. 2018.