
Ana Paulina Lee
Ana Paulina Lee is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. Lee's research and teaching interests focus on race, gender, nation, and citizenship; slavery and abolition, postcolonial studies; subaltern studies; literary theory; visual culture and performance, and cultural studies with a focus on 19th and 20th century Brazil and Ibero Pacific and Indian Ocean histories.
Lee takes a diverse geopolitical perspective and interdisciplinary approach to researching and teaching Latin American cultures and literatures. She is a member of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and has conducted research and study on Latin American Performance and Politics with the Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya in Chiapas, Mexico and the Yuyachkani Theater Collective in Lima, Peru. Currently, she sits on the Hemispheric Institute's Executive Council and leads the subcommittee on Pedagogy, Performance, and Digital Media. She has an MA in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from NYU in Madrid, Spain. During her doctoral studies, she conducted research and taught courses in Portugal, Brazil, Macau, and Hong Kong. Her doctoral research was awarded numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship in Portugal. She completed a PhD in Comparative Literature (Portuguese, Spanish, and Mandarin) with highest honors from the University of Southern California in 2014, the same year she accepted a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tulane University and joined the Columbia faculty.
Biography current as of January 2023