Christina H. Lee is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (on leave Fall 2022) in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Professor Lee was born in South Korea and raised in Argentina. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a concentration in Latin American literature and earned a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton in 1999. Other publications, besides Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines of Early Spanish Rule (Oxford University Press, 2021), include The Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain (Manchester University Press, 2015), The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources with Ricardo Padrón, Amsterdam University Press, 2020), and the collection of essays Western Visions of Far East in a Transpacific Age (Routledge, 2012). In 2022, Christina Lee and Cristina Martinez-Juan (SOAS University of London) received a joint NEH/AHRC three-year grant to carry out the project “A Digital Repatriation of a Lost archive of the Spanish Pacific: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762).” This project will repatriate more than 1,500 books and manuscripts seized from the archives of the Convent of San Pablo (now the Church of San Agustin) during the British occupation of Manila, 1762 to 1764.
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Public Engagement Building PEB 721
UCSD
La Jolla, PA
Thursday, May 4 - 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
