Derek P. Lee
Assistant Professor, Literature
Email: leede@wfu.edu
Phone: (336) 758-2241
Office: C210 Tribble Hall
Website: derekplee.wordpress.com
As an interdisciplinary scholar, I work across a broad swath of twentieth and twenty-first century literature, including modernist and contemporary culture, science and technology studies, and multiethnic fiction. I’m particularly fascinated by epistemology and the entanglements between Western, non-Western, and esoteric forms of knowledge. My current book project—Parascientific Revolutions—examines the paranormal mind in twentieth-century literature and science. I teach classes in Asian American literature, science fiction, fantasy, the supernatural, comics, literature and science, and medical humanities.
Degrees
Pennsylvania State University, PhD in English
University of Michigan, MFA in Creative Writing
Dartmouth College, BA in Biochemistry
Courses at Wake Forest
ENG 395 – Cyborgs & Sorcerers: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Multicultural America
ENG 375 – Fu Manchu, Model Minorities, and other Asian American Fictions
ENG 361 – Mutants, Machines, Mad Scientists: Literature & Science
ENG 175 – Do No Harm: An Introduction to Narrative Medicine
ENG 150 – The Graphic Novel
ENG 150 – The Ghost: An Introduction to Cultural Haunting
Selected Publications
“The Ethics of Extrapolation: Science Fiction in the Technical Communication Classroom.” Technical Communication Quarterly, forthcoming.
“Homo Amens: Epistemological Thanatopolitics and the Postcolonial Zombie.” ARIEL, 51:4 (2020), 155-183.
“Postquantum: A Tale for the Time Being, Atomik Aztex, and Hacking Modern Space-Time.” MELUS, 45:1 (2020), 1-26.
“The Man in the Macintosh and the Science of the Occult.” James Joyce Quarterly, 55:3-4 (2018), 115-137.
“Dark Romantic: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Specters of Gothic Modernism.” Journal of Modern Literature, 41:4 (2018), 125-142.
“On Anarchy, or What We Talk About When We Talk About Science.” Journal of Literature and Science, 10.1 (2017), 21-25.
“The Politics of Fairyland: Neil Gaiman and the Enchantments of Anti-Bildungsroman.” Critique, 57:5 (2016), 552–564.