Sabrina Lee

Sabrina Lee (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies with a graduate minor in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with the Department of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

• PhD Candidate in Literary Studies, graduate minor in Asian American Studies
• Research focuses on Global Modernism, Magic & the Occult, and Decolonial Theory

Research Interests include:

• Decoding coloniality in modernist literature
• Digital Humanities methodologies
• Critical Ethnic and Asian American Studies
• Interdisciplinary approaches to magic and cultural analysis

Highlighted Publications & Presentations:

• Co-authored "The Transformation of Gender in English Language Fiction" (2018) in Cultural Analytics
• Delivered response to Jeffrey T. Martin's lecture on Structuralism (2020)
• Participated in the School of Criticism and Theory (2021)

Scientific Awards & Fellowships:

• Ruth Schurman Brookens Graduate Award (2021)
• LAS Fellowship (2021-22)
• Gragg Barr Scholarship (2022, 2020)
• Kirkpatrick Fellowship (2015-16)
• Nicholson Fellowship (2020, delayed to 2021)