Lee Xie
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, New York University
Lee Xie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at New York University. She holds a B.A. in Spanish (high honors) and Journalism (double major) from New York University. She works at the intersections of diaspora studies and feminist aesthetics: her dissertation considers how Chinese diasporas are remembered in contemporary feminist aesthetic practices in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her most recent essay, "Mapping Covid-19’s Transnational Implications for Women Workers," was published in CUNY FORUM's special issue, Corona Conversations: East & West. She is a grant awardee and lab member of the 2021-2 Cross/Currents H-Lab, funded by the NYU Center for the Humanities.
Working Group Affiliations
Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair, Social Engagement Project - Project Manager