ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019 Assistant Professor of English, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2019 - Present
2017 Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2017-2019
EDUCATION
2017 Ph.D. in English with Distinction, University of California, Riverside, CA
2013 M.A. in English, University of California, Riverside, CA
2010 B.A. in English and World Literature / Art History, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
BOOKS
2023 The Intersection of Class and Space in British Post-War Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics. Bloomsbury, 2023.
2022 Locating Classed Subjectivities. ed. Simon Lee, Routledge, 2022.
ESSAYS
2023 “Struggle as Class Motif: Difficulty and Taboo in Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain.” The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, ed. Ben Clarke,
Routledge, May 2023.
2023 “Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz’ Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.” Adult Themes: British Cinema and the 'X' Certificate in the Long
Sixties, eds. Benjamin Halligan and Christopher Weedman, Bloomsbury, 2023.
2022 “Addressing Stigma: Demonized Locales in Pat Barker’s Union Street.” Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth, Twentieth,
and Twenty-First-Century British Writing. ed. Simon Lee. Routledge, 2022. pp. 127-145.
2022 “Introduction.” Locating Classed Subjectivities: Space and Social Class in Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing. ed. Simon Lee.
Routledge, 2022. pp. 1-19.
2021 “Internalizing Immiseration: Social Class and Mental Health in Contemporary British Fiction.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Class,
ed. Gloria McMillan, Routledge, 2021. pp. 269-280.
2020 “Lit Grit: The Gritty and the Grim in British Working-Class Cultural Production.” The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies. eds.
Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, and Tim Strangleman. Routledge, 2020. pp. 371-380.
2018 “Look at the State of This Place!”: The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-war Class Consciousness.” Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice. eds.
Ben Clarke and Nick Hubble. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. pp. 143-164.
2018 “Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State.” The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2018. pp. 20-39.
2017 “British Working-Class Literature: Paradox and Tension as Genre Motif.” Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. eds. John
Lennon and Magnus Nilsson. Stockholm University Press, 2017. pp. 159-195.
PUBLIC WRITING
2020 “A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; August 21, 2020.
2019 “What Makes an Immigrant Good?” The Los Angeles Review of Books; April 3, 2019.
2018 “Working-Class Writing in 21st-Century Britain.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; September 4, 2018.
2017 Review of Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism, Diversity, and the Millennial London Novel by Michael Perfect. Literary Geographies, vol. 3, no. 1,
May 2017. pp. 111-114.
2014 “After the Fall.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; December 11, 2014.
2014 “Bigmouth Strikes.” The Los Angeles Review of Books; March 6, 2014.
CONFERENCES AND TALKS
2023 “Addressing Stigma.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA; January 5-8, 2023.
2021 “‘Difficulty’ in Working-Class Narratives.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Youngstown, OH; May 20, 2021.
2021 “Contributors on The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies.” Zoom Event; April 16, 2021.
2021 “Vulgarity and Tension in Class-Conscious Writing.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, ON; January 7-10, 2021.
2020 “Representing the Working-Class: A Roundtable Discussion of Contributors to The Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies.”
Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Youngstown, OH; May 20, 2020.
2020 “The Uses of Nostalgia: Contours of Memory in Working-Class Culture.” Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Plano, TX; February 20,
2020.
2020 “Memory of Place: Locale and Nostalgia in Pat Barker’s Union Street.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA; January 9, 2020.
2019 “Internalizing Immiseration: Social Class and Mental Health in Richard Milward’s Apples.” American Comparative Literature Association, Washington, DC;
March 7, 2019.
2018 “Nostalgia and the Problem of Tradition in Sid Chaplin’s Working-Class Fiction.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Stony Brook,
New York; June 9, 2018.
2018 “Sartorial Spaces: Colin MacInnes and Multicultural Style.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, NY; January 4, 2018, Global
Fashion Standing Session.
2017 “Autodidacticism and Institutional Resistance.” Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Bloomington, Indiana; June 1, 2017.
2017 “Brutal Youth: Colin MacInnes and the Architecture of the Welfare State.” ‘You Are Here’: Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment.
Omaha, NE; March 23, 2017.
2017 “The Paradoxical Motifs and Aesthetics of Working-Class Literature.” Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Plano, TX; February 23, 2017.
2016 “Look at the State of this Place! Domestic Space and the Working-Class Imaginary.” Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Plano, TX;
March 31, 2016.
2014 “Underground Overground: The Paradox of the Sigil in Contemporary Usage.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Riverside, CA; October
31, 2014.
2014 “Inadvertent Rituals: Occult Communiqué in Crash Worship and TOPY.” Association for the Study of Esotericism, Hamilton, NY; June 21, 2014.
2013 “Foundational Structures: Narrative Containment in William Gaddis’ Carpenter’s Gothic.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Diego,
CA; November 2, 2013.
2013 “Tracking the Sovereign: Biopolitical Representation in Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park and Gareth Edwards’ Monsters.” Eaton Science Fiction
Conference, Riverside, CA; April 11, 2013.
2013 “Encounters in the Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion on Pedagogical Development.” (dis)junctions, University of California, Riverside, CA; April 5,
2013 “Ov Narratological Becomings: Genesis P-Orridge and the Pandrogyne Project.” Minding the Body: Duality and its Discontents, CUNY English
Association Conference, March 1, 2013.
2012 “Ambulatory Ambivalence: Cultivating Subjectivity in James Joyce’s ’Wandering Rocks’.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC;
November 10, 2012.
2012 “Framing Limitation: Cold War Ideologies in Elizabeth Bishop's Painting and Prose." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA;
October 19, 2012.
For a complete CV, feel free to get in touch: simonlee@txstate.edu