Christina Lee (she/her)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Associate
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- Profile
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Christina Lee (she/her) is the Research Associate: Knowledge Exchange for the Disability Matters project. She is also a Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.
She completed a PhD in English Literature and Medical Humanities at King’s College London, funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), in which she examined self-care and healing in meditation memoirs by Buddhist women.
She has taught undergraduate seminars in English Literature at King’s College London and was the tutor for the MA Health Humanities Illness module at University College London. She has also supervised MA dissertations on topics such as biopolitics of data collection in digital health mobile apps and newspaper representations of schizophrenia in contemporary China.
- Research interests
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Christina works across disciplines and her research draws on medical humanities, disability studies, gender studies, narrative theory and critical race theory.
She is particularly interested in illness narratives, disabled embodiment, and experiences of care and self-care. Her current work focuses on the generative tensions between disability studies and medical humanities and explores how knowledge exchange with marginalised underrepresented disabled scholars can enrich and transform health research.
Publications
- Lee, Christina. ‘Buddhist Self-Help Healing Narratives and the Meditative Turn’. In Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries, edited by Ioannis Gaitanidis, Sang-yun Han, and Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira. Avery Morrow: Amsterdam University Press, Forthcoming.
- —. ‘Is There a Crip In This Class?’ The Disability Matters Scholarship Collection, 12 November 2023. /ihuman/disability-matters/disability-matters-scholarship-collection/lee-rizvi-and-murray-online-symposia-december-2023.
- —. ‘DisCrit and the Medical Humanities’. The Polyphony (blog), 11 September 2023..
- —. ‘Cripping the Medical Humanities: Disability, Ableism, and Access Intimacy’. Consortium 2, no. 2 (2022): 44–60.
- —. ‘Crossings: Reflections on Disability and Intersectionality’. King’s English Blog (blog), 27 March 2019..
- —. ‘Feeling and Healing: Anna Halprin’s Dance as Healing Art’. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices 9, no. 2 (2017): 269–79..