Amanda Lee to Join Romance Studies
Dr. Amanda Lee will join Romance Studies as a Visiting Assistant Professor of French for the 2021 to 2022 Academic Year.
Professor Lee’s research and courses investigate French seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performing arts and literature from the vantage of aesthetics, gender and sexuality studies, Jewish studies, and critical race studies. Her book manuscript, French Dance Poetics: Transcribing Movement, Gender, and Culture argues that, from 1750-1914, philosophers and poets theorized dance as a poetic language onto which they projected a nationalist aesthetics of race, gender, and religion.
In addition to her scholarship, Professor Lee became a Certified Instructor of the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum (Levels I-III) in 2018. She also founded Tourbillon Dance Project, where she continues to conduct research through artistic practice, collaborating with students and local and international artists. Her recent choreographic work, Danced Translations of Hamilton, was performed in the Festival Off d’Avignon in France (2018), and at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia (2019).
In the fall 2021 term, Lee will teach LF 350 B1 (Reading the French Way) and LF 562 (Queering the Sun King’s Court: Performing the Body Politic in 17th-Century France).
Lee holds a BA from Bard College and an MA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.