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KIMBERLI LEE
Visiting Assistant Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2573 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
courses: WRA 125: Writing: The American Ethnic and Racial Experience; WRA 150: Writing: The Evolution of American Thought; WRA 195H: Writing: Major Topics in American Thought
teaching and research interests: first-year writing, American Indian literatures, historical representations of Native peoples, ethnic literatures, resistance literatures
Lee received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003. Her dissertation was an edited collection of letters by Mari Sandoz that speaks to her political activism on behalf of Northern Plains tribes. Lee has taught American literature and writing courses at various institutions including Tarleton State University, Central Texas College, and McLennan Community College. She is currently teaching Tier I writing courses at MSU.
Lee has published several works on Sandoz including a book review in Great Plains Quarterly, an essay in Reclaiming Native Cultures, and an online finding aide to the University of Nebraska's Mari Sandoz Collection. She has presented at numerous conferences including the Native American Literature Symposium, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the Western Literature Association.
Her current book-length project focuses on contemporary Native American music as sites of resistance. Some of the Native musicians Lee is researching are Buffy St. Marie, John Trudell, Joy Harjo, Jim Boyd, Keith Secola, and Robbie Robertson. Additional areas of interest are Lakota Studies and multiethnic literatures of North America, with a particular interest in American Indian rhetorics, nonfiction, and film.
In her spare time she enjoys making shawls, beadwork, powwows, riding horses, photography, travel, and rock hunting (catch and release).
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