Xavier Lee

Xavier Lee is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, affiliated with the Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and African and African American Studies. His office is located in Voorhies 255 with contact email xglee@ucdavis.edu.

Education:

• PhD, Yale University (2022)

Dr. Lee's scholarship centers on black literary and intellectual cultures, specifically examining how fiction redeems and rewrites histories of slavery and unfreedom. His research spans comparative literature, critical theory, postcolonial studies, and Atlantic cultural frameworks, with emphasis on African diasporic narratives across literary and cinematic media.

His recent publications analyze slavery as a historical concept through Afro-Atlantic texts including Chamoiseau's Martinican fiction, Salih's Sudanese novel Season of Migration to the North, and Gerima's Ethiopian film Sankofa, revealing how creative works transform traumatic histories into philosophical resources.