Spencer Lee-Lenfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Lee-Lenfield’s research focuses on literary translation between Asian and Asian American literatures. His previous research has appeared in journals including PMLA, Acta Koreana, Poetics Today, MLQ, and Criticism. Lee-Lenfield has also contributed reporting, essays, and criticism to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Guernica, The Yale Review, and Harvard Magazine, and literary translations to Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, and publications.

Last Updated: May 1, 2024

Mysterious Displays of Will

Spencer Lee-Lenfield from New York Review of Books
Nadine Hwang led a dauntless life. What she did over the course of the twentieth century makes her sound like a superheroic projection from the twenty-first: a queer, Chinese fighter pilot and lawyer with a sword-dancing act who spoke at least four...