J. Seth Lee
J. Seth Lee earned his PhD in English literature from the University of Kentucky in 2014. He currently teaches writing and literature at Slippery Rock University. His scholarship examines questions about the formation of subjectivity and nationalism in the minds of exiles and the development of exile from a “nation” in its modern sense.
Subjects: History, Literature
Biography
Seth grew up in rural southwestern Virginia. He attended Virginia Tech in the early 2000s where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in English. After teaching at Virginia Tech for a year, Seth joined the graduate program at the University of Kentucky, earning his PhD under the direction of Dr. Matthew Giancarlo. After graduation, Seth joined the faculty of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee as a Visiting Professor before moving to Huntsville, Alabama. From there he moved north to Pennsylvania where he teaches writing and literature at Slippery Rock University.Education
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PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2014
MA, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 2007
BA, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 2005
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Late medieval literature and drama
Early modern literature and drama
Exilic literature
The Wycliffites
Reformation Studies
Early women writers
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Websites
Books
Articles
Edmund Spenser’s Mind of Exile and Colonial Apologetics
Published: Dec 07, 2017 by SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Authors: J. Seth Lee
Subjects:
History, Literature
This essay examines a complex rhetoric of national identity was at play in the margins of England’s geopolitical borders—a rhetoric that critiques the center of power. Spenser codifies such rhetoric in his polemical and imaginative literature, struggling (but ultimately failing) to defend English colonial expansion.
William Turner's Rhetoric of Exile and National Identity
Published: Feb 01, 2014 by Reformation
Authors: J. Seth Lee
Subjects:
History, Literature
This article examines exile’s influence on the formation of an English national identity as it is expressed in the religious polemics of WilliamTurner, demonstrating a ‘‘rhetoric of exile’’ that defines and explores an English national identity formed extra-nationally by forcing readers and authors to takes sides, and by creating an unambiguous ideological platform, codified in the authority of print, a confessional both spiritual and national.