Julia Lee

Julia Lee is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. A native of Los Angeles, she has previously taught at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and University of Southern California, where she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities. Her first book, The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Her second book, Our Gang: A Racial History of “The Little Rascals” was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2015. She has also published a novel, By The Book (2018), under the pen name Julia Sonneborn. She has written for the Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and Zocalo Public Square.