Ana Paulina Lee’s research interests focus on urbanism, migration, race, gender, literary and cultural studies in 19th and 20th century Brazil.
During the academic year 2018-19, Lee will be on leave as a Visiting Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
She is the author of Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation and Memory (Stanford University Press, 2018). Lee has published articles, essays, and translations in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, TDR/The Drama Review, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures, The Blackwell Companion to Luis Buñuel, The Global Studies Journal, e-misférica, and Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.
With Professor Anupama Rao, Lee co-directs the working group, Geographies of Injustice, which examines issues surrounding housing justice in a comparative and global context with a focus on Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and Harlem.
