Fiona Lee
Student Fellow
Fiona Lee is a Ph.D Candidate in the English program at CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently writing her dissertation on literary cultural texts that elaborate the transnational filiations between Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia during the period of decolonization. She is also an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College and co-chair of the Postcolonial Studies Group, a doctoral students’ council organization at the Graduate Center. Her writing has appeared in Reviews in Cultural Theory.
Participating Years
2011–2012
How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture
In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?