Kirsten Lee

she/her/hers

B.A. in English (highest honors) and Comparative Literature, Williams College, 2016

M.A. in English, University of Pennsylvania, 2018

Interests

19th-Century American Literature African American and Ethnic American Literatures Early American Literature African American Studies Comparative Race and Empire Studies Environmental Humanities Gender and Sexuality Studies Transatlantic Studies

Articles and Book Chapters

"'Sister, wasn't it good': Archival Gestures, Mutual Witness, and the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival" Early American Literature (2022)

"The Emigrationist Turn in Black Anti-Colonizationist Sentiment" American Literature in Transition, 1770-1828 (2022)

Awards

2023 Predoctoral Fellowship at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, Pennsylvania State University

2022 GSWS Graduate Pedagogy Award

2021 Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Graduate Fellowships for Inclusive & Equitable Teaching

News & Events

2021/04/09

Kirsten Lee WIP

2020/02/20

2020 Jay I. Kislak Symposium

2018/11/05

2018/02/23

Swift in the 21st Century

Courses Taught

spring 2022

ENGL 081.401 Intro to African American Literature

ENGL 200.308 Junior Research Seminar: Black Marxisms: Literature and Radical Movement canceled

fall 2020

ENGL 200.302 Black Marxisms: Literature and Radical Movements canceled

spring 2019

ENGL 101.403 Jane Austen and Adaptation