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This talk explores the relationship between ethnic studies and literary interpretation to argue for the importance of attending to positionality.  Drawing on the life and activism of Yuri Kochiyama, as well as her own reading journey, Dr. Lee articulates an understanding of identity that is neither static nor essential but attuned to both inheritance and choice, community and change, responsibility and freedom.

Dr. Sabrina Lee holds a PhD in English with a graduate minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.  She specializes in twentieth-century anglophone literature, in particular literary modernism.  In the 17c������� English Department, she teaches courses in literary theory, modernism, ethnic studies, and gender studies.

Co-Sponsors:  17c������� Asian Studies Program and the English Department