Lee, Summer Kim
Education
Ph.D., New York University, Performance Studies
M.A., New York University, Performance Studies
Interests
Performance studies, Gender and sexuality studies, Asian American literature and culture, critical race and ethnic studies, aesthetics, feminist theory, queer theory
Summer Kim Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. She specializes in feminist theory, queer theory, performance studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and Asian American art, literature, and culture. Her first book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Some of her published work can be found in ASAP/Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Post45, Social Text, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Prior to joining the UCLA English faculty in 2020, she was a Mellon Faculty Fellow in English at Dartmouth College, as well as a Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College.
Edited Volumes
Guest Co-editor. “Performances of Contingency: Feminist Relationality and Asian American Studies After the Institution,” special issue of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Vol 30, no. 1 (2020).
Guest editor. “Someone Else’s Object: On Minoritarian Critique,” essay cluster for Post45 Contemporaries (2019). Link.
Articles
“In the Same Room, Again: Anecdotes about Feminist Meetings.” Post45, Issue 8: Ambivalent Criticism, edited by Michael Dango and Tina Post. October 2022. Link.
“Borrowed Speech: Giving an Account of Another with Wu Tsang’s Full Body Quotation.” ASAP/Journal: The Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present Vol. 6, No. 3 (Fall 2021). Special Issue: “Autotheory,” edited by Alex Brostoff and Lauren Fournier.
“Asian Americanist Critique and Listening Practices of Contemporary Popular Music.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Edited by Josephine Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
“Staying In: Mitski, Ocean Vuong, and Asian American Asociality.” Social Text 138, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2019).
“Wrong Impressions.” Editor’s Forum. ASAP/Journal: The Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. Special issue: “Queer Form,” Vol. 2, Issue 2 (May 2017).
Interest Areas
• Asian American Literature & Culture
• Sexuality & Gender Studies
• Performance Studies
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
• Aesthetics
• Feminist Theory
• Queer Theory
