Interests

Rachel C. Lee, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UCLA, specializes in Asian American literature, performance culture, and studies of gender and sexuality.  She is the author of The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (Princeton University Press, 1999), and co-editor of the volume Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace (Routledge University Press, 2003).  Lee has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, and a UC Humanities Research Institute.  Her current project, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America, examines Asian bodies as they overlap with various discourses on technology, transnationalism, cyberspace, and sexuality, in a variety of genres such as stand-up comedy, dance, new media/digital technology, and literature.

Selected Works

“‘Where’s My Parade?’ Margaret Cho and the Asian American Body in Space.”  TDR: The Drama Review 48.2 (Summer 2004): 108-132. (PDF)

“Notes from the (non)Field: Theorizing and Teaching ‘Women of Color.’”  Meridians 1.1 (Fall 2000): 85-109.  Rpt. In Women's Studies on Its Own, ed. Robyn Wiegman, Duke University Press, 2002. 82-105.

“Asian Americans’ Performing Blackface, Blacks’ Performing Yellowface: Costly Performances or Coalitional Enactments.”  Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Eds. Dominique Marcais, Mark Niemeyer, Bernard Vincent, Cathy Waegner. Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag C., 2002. 147 – 158.

“Asian American Cultural Production in Asian-Pacific Perspective.”  boundary 2  26.2 (summer 1999): 231-254.

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