S.LEE

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S.LEE is currently Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, where he researches and teaches contemporary literature, aesthetics, and critical theory. His primary research focuses on urbanism, architecture, and social class, with particular attention to how space and environment shape identity and how cultural production reflects these dynamics.

He is the author of Kitchen Sink Aesthetics, a book that positions the British kitchen sink realism movement as an archetype of spatialized class articulation. He also edited Locating Classed Subjectivities, a volume exploring the intersections of space and class over three centuries. His articles and book chapters address similar themes, as does his public scholarship for The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Recent courses include “The (New) British Novel),” “Nostalgia in British Fiction,” “Working-Class Literature,” “British Social Realism,” and “British Horror Fiction.” He has also offered single-author seminars on writers like Zadie Smith, J.G. Ballard, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Upcoming research projects include a monograph on nostalgia, a second on class representation in recent cultural production, a third on esoteric performance art, and an article on decision-making under conditions of precarity.

He splits his time between Austin and Los Angeles.