MA Student

Literature

Research Area(s)

Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Fiction, Modernism and Postmodernism, Urban Native

Contact Information

Email: wwlee19@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 319

Biography

Wendi Lee is an MA student of English Literature at UNM. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English and Film Studies from the National University of Singapore. She also spent time in Columbia University studying transnationalism and the Harlem Renaissance and Mafia in Cinema. Her research and academic interests span the study of contemporary minority American literature, film, art and media—particularly Native American literature and culture in urban and contemporary 21stcentury spaces. She completed her undergraduate honors thesis on Tommy Orange's novel There There, highlighting the recontextualization of the Post-Native American Renaissance Urban Native in the 21st century. She loves prose fiction and poetry and studying how the stylistic aspects and genre of contemporary texts invoke an invigoration of inspiration, novelty and attention that is due unto the unseen and the unheard in modern societies today. In her teaching, she hopes to inspire students to think beyond the surface and cultivate empathy and curiosity about the world.