Dr. Sookyoung Lee

I teach courses on modernisms and 20th-century Anglophone literature with occasional forays into film. I have written essays on the late-Victorian political economist J.A. Hobson, the mid-century novelist Doris Lessing, modernist theories of the novel (“The Prosaics of Weak Grammar” in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 56:3), and most recently on queer friendship in the modern epic Ulysses (forthcoming from James Joyce Quarterly). I also write for and curate an epistolary series on teaching and researching in times of increasing disasters ("Letters from the Field" in M/m PrintPlus). Currently, I am at work on my book project about the rise of the novel and the "global enclosures," reading the Empire's linguistic and cultural reorganization of the world as the definitive legacy of privatizing common lands in early modern England and Ireland.

Courses regularly taught:

• 226  Survey in British Literature II: 1700-Present
• 250  Methods of Critical Analysis: James Joyce
• 284 Queer Feelings
• 349  Modern Poetry
• 353  Modernist Fiction
• 357  Postcolonial Film & Theory
• 366 Planetary Modernisms
• 450 SYE: Virginia Woolf