Christopher Joseph Lee

Education:

B.A., Religion and Comparative Literature, Boston University; MTS, Women, Gender, Sexuality, Religion, Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Brown University, English

Dissertation:

Unspectacular Violence: Narrating Trans/Queer Death in Contemporary American Culture

Thesis Advisor:

Ralph E. Rodriguez, Professor of American Studies and English, Brown University

Research Topic:

Developing a book manuscript on the trans and queer aesthetic strategies available to transform the politics of damage beyond carceral solutions and catastrophic reprisal. Research areas include trans literature and poetics, queer necropolitics, visual studies, critical prison studies, Asian American studies, and HIV/AIDS cultural studies.

Mentor:

Nigel Hatton, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, University of California, Merced

Current Position:

President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English: Literature and Languages, University of California, Merced

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