Simon Lee is a researcher, writer, and educator. He works on issues in literature and art, particularly representations of urbanism, architecture, environment, and the impact of space and place on identity. He is the author of The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics (2024) and editor of Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing (2022), and has published a wide range of scholarship on British life. He is an associate professor at Texas State University, where he teaches contemporary literature, cultural studies, and critical theory. He splits his time between Austin and Los Angeles.
Simon Lee
Articles
You Dirty Beasts
Simon Lee reviews “Beasts of England” by Adam Biles, an update to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism: On Selina Todd’s “Tastes of Honey”
Simon Lee reviews Selina Todd’s biography on British playwright Shelagh Delaney.
What Makes an Immigrant Good?
Simon Lee reviews "The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America," which offers a range of perspectives on assimilation, pluralism, and Othering.
Of Place and Identity: Working-Class Writing in 21st-Century Britain
A collection of working-class essays from Britain breaks down walls and shatters categories.
After The Fall
The untold story of Manchester’s post-punk outfit The Fall and its talented, volatile lead singer Mark Edward Smith.
Bigmouth Strikes
Simon Lee reviews Morrissey's Autobiography.
"Autobiography: Morrissey": Two Reviews
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