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Dr. Monika Lee

Monika LeeDepartment of English
Office: BR 215
Email: mlee5@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519 432 8353 ext 28032

Academic Background

  • Combined Honours B.A. in English and French at the University of Toronto and the Université de Provence
  • M.A., English, University of Western Ontario
  • Ph.D., English, University of Western Ontario
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

Research and Scholarly Interests

  • Creative Writing
  • P.B. Shelley
  • William Blake
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • English Romanticism

Teaching

  • Creative Writing
  • General Literature and Composition
  • Keats and Shelley
  • Blake and Shelley: Visionary Poetics
  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  • Nineteenth-Century British Literature
  • The Prophetic in Literature
  • The Family in Literature
  • Women and Literature: Romantic Women Novelists
  • Women and Literature: Victorian Women Novelists
  • Women and Literature: Repressions and Representations of the Maternal
  • Postmodern Canadian Literature
  • Introduction to English Literature
  • The Major Forms of Oral Discourse
  • Poetry and Prosody
  • Utopian Literature
  • Canadian literature

Representative Publications

  • Book: gravity loves the body poems by monika lee. South Western Ontario Poetry Press, 2008.
  • “‘A Humble Translation of Eons into Words’: Susan Ioannou’s Penetration of Earth’s Layers in Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth”, vallum: contemporary poetry. Vol. 7. No. 1. Fall/Winter, 2010: (64-69).
  • "A Mother Outlaw Vindicated:  Social Critique in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.  Winter, 2008.  
  • "Rhythm, Rekenning, Resistance: Dennis Lee's Sussing Out Meaning from (Un)words in Yesno" in vallum: contemporary poetry.  5.2, 2007: (37-41).
  • "Diary and Extended Koan: The Sacred Text of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing in vallum: contemporary poetry. 4:2 / 5:1, 2007: (51-56).
  • "Revolutionary Sexuality in Blake and Shelley" in "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry.  Ed. Cedric Barfoot.  New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006: (189-206).
  • slender threads London: HMS press and the Canadian Poetry Association, 2004.
  • Rousseau's Impact on Shelley: Figuring the Written Self, Romantic Reassessment, Vol. 154, Salzburg Studies in Literature, 1999.
 
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