Julia Lee
Associate Professor of English
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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Biography
Julia Lee is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. A native of Los Angeles, she has previously taught at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and University of Southern California, where she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities. Her first book, The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Her second book, Our Gang: A Racial History of “The Little Rascals” was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2015. She has also published a novel, By The Book (2018), under the pen name Julia Sonneborn. She has written for the Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and Zocalo Public Square.
Education
Harvard University
Ph.D., English and American Language and Literature
2008
Harvard University
M.A., English and American Language and Literature
2004
Princeton University
A.B., English
1998
Summa cum laude Certificate in European Cultural Studies
Accomplishments
Peter C. Rollins Award for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals | professional
2017 Peter C. Rollins Award for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals Awarded by Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals | professional
2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals Awarded by American Library Association
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Emerging Scholar | professional
Awarded by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine
Languages
- French
- Latin
- Korean
Media Appearances
Midday Sunday: Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals
Fox 11 Los Angeles with Tony Valdez
2017
view moreAuthor Julia Lee joins Elvis Mitchell to discuss how a children’s show from the 1920s attempted to transcend racism
“The Treatment” with Elvis Mitchell, KCRW
2017
view moreOur Gang Chronicles Lives of African American Actors in The Little Rascals
NPR’s All Things Considered with Robert Siegel
2016
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