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Latin American literature, language and culture have fascinated Dr. Diana Lee since her high school years. While she was a sophomore in college, she spent a year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, living with a home-stay family. Her first day of class was September 11, 2001. The experience of living abroad when the world changed so suddenly sparked her academic career focused on issues such as postmodern violence, biopolitics and the  environment in work by 20th-century and contemporary authors writing in Spanish.

Dr. Lee鈥檚 interest in biopolitics and environmental issues led her to create the course Ecoliterature and Environmental Themes in Latin America. She also teaches courses in modern Latin American literature; Spanish language, grammar and composition; and for those interested in the medical field, Medical Spanish.

She has returned regularly to Argentina, and also has spent time in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica and Spain.

Before joining the Hope faculty in 2020, she taught for three years at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and earlier at Pepperdine University and the University of Wisconsin鈥揜iver Falls.

AREAS OF Expertise

• 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature
• Hispanic studies
• Ecocriticism

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature, University of California-Riverside, 2015
• M.A., Spanish, University of California-Riverside, 2012
• M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2008
• B.A., Spanish, international studies, Pepperdine University, 2004

Selected Publications and Presentations

• 鈥淪tories from the Grotto: Material Agency in 鈥淭he Cave鈥� by Liliana Colanzi,鈥� Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, forthcoming
• 鈥淎rmadillos, Hippopotamuses and Biopolitcs in El ruido de las cosas al caer by Juan Gabriel V谩squez,鈥� Ecozon@, 2025
• 鈥淓nvironmental Crisis and Insidious Individualism in Ignacio Padilla鈥檚 鈥�El a帽o de los gatos amurallados and Juan Villoro鈥檚 Arrecife,鈥� Chasqui, 2024
• 鈥淎n Argument for Utilizing Ecocriticism in Spanish American Literary Studies at Christian Colleges,鈥� Journal for the Christian Association of World Languages, 2024
• 鈥淩adioactive Waste in You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi,鈥� presentation at the International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 2024
• 鈥淥il Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Crude and The Curse of Abundance,鈥� presentation at the International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 2022
• 鈥淰iolence and the Urban Environment: An Ecocritical Reading of Morir谩s lejos by Jos茅 Emilio Pacheco,鈥� Chasqui, 2019
• 鈥淰iolencia e inocencia en los cuentos de Carlos Orlando Pardo,鈥� presentation at Conferencia de la literatura tolimense, regional, y colombiana, Ibagu茅, Colombia, 2019

Outside the College

In addition to reading and researching, Dr. Lee enjoys exercising, jigsaw puzzles, hot tea, and time with family and friends. She has lived in Latin America, Europe and Asia but still thinks her home state of California has the most beautiful places to visit.