Portrait of Dr. Simon Lee

Dr. Simon Lee

  • Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • 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. (2025). 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

2024

  • Lee, S. (2024, August 28). You Dirty Beasts. The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/you-dirty-beasts/

2023

  • 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/

2022

  • 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
  • Lee, S. (2022). Introduction. In Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in 19th, 20th, and 21st-century British Writing (pp. 1–19). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Locating-Classed-Subjectivities-Intersections-of-Space-and-Working-Class/Lee/p/book/9780367635107
  • Lee, S. (2022). Addressing Stigma: Demonized Locales in Pat Barker’s Union Street. In Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in 19th, 20th, and 21st-century British Writing (pp. 127–145). New York and London, USA: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Locating-Classed-Subjectivities-Intersections-of-Space-and-Working-Class/Lee/p/book/9780367635107
  • Adam, V., Manu, P., Mahamadu, A. M., Dziekonski, K., Kissi, E., Emuze, F. A., & Lee, S. (2022). Building information modelling (BIM) readiness of construction professionals: the context of the Seychelles construction industry. Journal of Engineering Design and Technology, 20(3), 823–840. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-09-2020-0379

2021

  • Lee, S. (2021). Internalizing Immiseration: Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction. In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Class (pp. 269–280). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Literature-and-Class/McMillan/p/book/9780367442118#:~:text=The%20Routledge%20Companion%20to%20Literature%20and%20Class%20offers%20a%20comprehensive,mental%20health%2C%20gender%20and%20queer

2020

  • Lee, S. (2020). Lit Grit: The Gritty and the Grim in British Working-Class Cultural Production. In The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Working-Class-Studies/Fazio-Launius-Strangleman/p/book/9780367610821
  • Lee, S. (2020, August 21). A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism: On Selina Todd’s “Tastes of Honey.” The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-progenitor-of-second-wave-feminism-on-selina-todds-tastes-of-honey/

2019

  • Lee, S. (2019, April 3). What Makes an Immigrant Good? The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-makes-an-immigrant-good/

2018

  • Lee, S. (2018). Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State. The Journal of Working-Class Studies, 3(1), 20–39. Retrieved from https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/workingclassstudies/article/view/6113
  • 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. (2018, September 4). Of Place and Identity: Working Class Writing in 21st-Century Britain. The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-place-and-identity-working-class-writing-in-21st-century-britain/

2017

  • 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
  • Lee, S. (2017). Literary Geographies. Literary Geographies. Retrieved from https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/107

2014

  • Lee, S. (2014, December 11). After the Fall [Review of The Big Midweek: Life Inside the Fall, by S. Hanley & O. Piekarski]. The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fall/
  • Lee, S. (2014, March 6). Bigmouth Strikes [Review of Autobiography: Morrissey, by S. P. Morrissey]. The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bigmouth-strikes/