Dr. Monika Lee

Academic Background

• Postgraduate Certificate, Humber College School of Writing
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
• Ph.D., English, Western University
• M.A., English, Western University
• Combined Honours B.A. in English and French at the University of Toronto and the Université de Provence

Research and Scholarly Interests

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

Teaching

• Dialogues with Frankenstein 1818
• The Brontes: Romance, Realism, and Myth
• Major British Authors
• Revelation in Literature
• Romantic Rebels
• 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
• Monsters, Ghosts, and Demons in the Nineteenth Century
• Senior Seminar in Creativity

Representative Publications

Recent Publications

• "Shelley's The Cenci and Discourses of Sexual Violence" in Romantic Ethics and the 'Woke' Romantics. Heidelberg University Press: 2022. pp. 23-44.
• “‘Let Me Converse with Spirits’: Haunting Interactions in P.B. Shelley’s Disembodied Dialogues” in New Perspectives on Romantic Interactions (Jagiellonian University Press, 2020).
• “Fractal Fiction in Alice Munro’s ‘Too Much Happiness’” in Alice Munro Everlasting: Essays on Her Works II. Ed. J.R. Struthers.  Toronto: Guernica Press, 2020: 387-407.  Essential Writers Ser. 52.
• “Frankenstein 1818: Reproduction, Autobiography, and Dialogue.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities: Special Issue: Bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2019: 9-28.
• “A Tale of Two Rousseaus” in European Romantic Review. Vol. 30, Issue 1. March 2019:  70-76.
• “Shelley’s ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and Rousseau’s Julie: the Mirror and the Lake.”  Wordsworth Circle. Winter, Vol. 48. 2017: 51-59.
• “Dream Shapes as Quest or Question in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound” in Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms. Vol. 5, 2016: 110-126.
• “An Eerie and Numinous Place of Quiet Unknowing: Alice Munro’s ‘The Love of A Good Woman’ in Context” in The Windsor Review: Alice Munro, A Souwesto Celebration. Eds. J.R. Struthers and John B. Lee.  Vol. 47. No. 2.  Spring, 2015: (104-24).

Books

• If water breathes (Wipf and Stock, 2019).
• gravity loves the body: poems by monika lee (Southwestern Ontario Press, 2008).
• Rousseau’s Impact on Shelley: Figuring the Written Self, Romantic Reassessment, Vol. 154, Salzburg Studies in Literature, Lewiston: 1999.

Poetry Chapbooks

• skin to skin with Shelly Harder (Fire-stealing Primates’ Press, 2016)
• Slender threads (Canadian Poetry Association, EBIP, 2004).

Awards

• Brescia Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013
• Recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Grant for Poetry in 2010.

http://publish.uwo.ca/~mlee5/