Debbie Lee

Biography

Debbie Lee received her PhD from the University of Arizona, in Tucson, in 1998, and began teaching at WSU that same year. She specializes in late-eighteenth century and early nineteenth-century British literature and history. She has taught senior seminars and graduate seminars with the following titles: "Slavery and Romanticism," "Romanticism, Exploration, and Science," "Traveling Blues," "William Blake: Poet, Prophet, Artist," and "The Pleasures of Imagination."

Publications

Her publications include Romantic Liars: Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire (Palgrave Macmillan 2006), Literature Science and Exploration: Bodies of Knowledge (Cambridge 2004), Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (UPenn Press, 2002; 2004), three editions, co-general editor of the eight volume Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period (1999, Pickering & Chatto), and numerous articles in journals such as the TLS, ELH, Studies in Romanticism, and Cultural Critique. She is currently working on her next book project, "Hogarth, Blake, and the Birth of British Art."

Links

Debbie Lee's Website
William Blake Workshop