Faculty Profile for Dr. Simon Lee
Biography Section
Biography and Education
PhD in English, University of California, RiversideMA in English, University of California, Riverside
BA in English and World Literature / Art History, Pitzer College
Research Interests
Post-45 British Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Working-Class Culture, Critical Theory, Urbanism and ArchitectureSelected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Lee, S. (2025). Tracking the Sovereign: Biopolitical Representation in Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park and Gareth Edwards’ Monsters. In Societies in Space: Essays on the Civilized Frontier in Film and Television (pp. 141–166). Jefferson, NC, USA: McFarland. Retrieved from https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/societies-in-space/?srsltid=AfmBOoo9GXwQza_P4rMVLmvIlYv2l00NS1IC7WAGqq4FDhPGMUjCg8KI
- Lee, S. (2024). Struggle as Class Motif: Difficulty and Taboo in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain. In The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature (pp. 84–99). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Working-Class-Literature/Clarke/p/book/9781032127866?srsltid=AfmBOoqGSFAtDPdVXWTYgPkvCyezj4-RmCXlQvBcvt4R2PxkHkRrZD_l
- Lee, S. (2023). Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz’s Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In Adult Themes: British Cinema and the “X” Rating (pp. 73–90). London, UK: Bloomsbury. Retrieved from https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/adult-themes-9781501375262/
- Lee, S. (2023). Kitchen Sink Aesthetics: The Intersection of Class, Race, and Space in British Post-War Writing. London, UK: Bloomsbury. Retrieved from https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/intersection-of-class-and-space-in-british-postwar-writing-9781350193093/
- Lee, S. (Ed.). (2022). Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in 19th, 20th, and 21st-century British Writing. New York, NY, USA: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Locating-Classed-Subjectivities-Intersections-of-Space-and-Working-Class/Lee/p/book/9780367635107