Simon Lee is a researcher, writer, and educator. He works on issues of social class in literature, particularly representations of urbanism, architecture, environment, and their impact on identity. He is the author of Kitchen Sink Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2023), the editor of Locating Classed Subjectivities (Routledge, 2022), has published a range of scholarship on British life, and is a contributor at The Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary literature, cultural studies, and critical theory at Texas State University, splitting his time between Austin and Los Angeles.