Dr. Sohui Lee
Associate Professor and Faculty Director
Writing & Multiliteracy Center
Broome Library, Rm 1573
Phone: 805-437-2057
Email: sohui.lee@csuci.edu
Education
Ph.D. English and American Literature, Boston University, 2002
--Humanities Foundation Grant, 1999
--Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Work
in the Humanities, 1999
--Presidential University Teaching Scholarship, 1995-2001
--Presidential University Fellowship, 1995-2001
Visiting Graduate Student, English Literature, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 1998-1999
M.A. English and American Literature, Boston University, 1995
B.A. English and German Literature, UCLA, 1993.
--Magna cum laude.
--Barbara Ladd Gates Award for Intellectual Achievement, 1993
Teaching
Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Writing & Multiliteracy Center, CSUCI, 2020-2024
Assistant Professor and Faculty Director, Writing & Multiliteracy Center, CSUCI, 2015-2020
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing & Rhetoric, Stanford University, 2014-2015
Lecturer, Program in Writing & Rhetoric, Stanford University, 2005-2015
Associate Director, Hume Writing Center, Stanford University, 2011-2012
Assistant Director, Hume Writing Center, Stanford University, 2007-2009
Postdoc Teaching Fellow, Stanford University, 2002-2005
Teaching Fellow, Boston University, 1995-2001
Biography
Dr. Sohui Lee joined CSU Channel Islands in July 2015. Previously she taught courses, lead workshops, and tutored students and faculty at Stanford University for fourteen years, specializing in academic writing, visual design, oral presentations, writing pedagogy, and multiliteracy center studies. While Assistant Director of Stanford's Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, she launched initiatives that expanded the Center's services to Stanford's graduate students for the first time: this included funding programs such as graduate tutoring, workshops, and dissertation boot camps. As Associate Director at Stanford, she started the Digital Media Program. Dr. Lee has published in leading composition and writing center studies journals (Writing Center Journal, WLN, Praxis, Computers and Composition), contributed to numerous book collections. From 2017 to 2020, she was Associate Editor at WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. Dr. Lee is co-editor of the Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media (2013), nominated for IWCA Outstanding Book/Major Work Award. She is co-author of Design for Composition: Creative Projects for Inspired Visual and Multimodal Arguments (Parlor Press, September 2023) and co-editor of Disruptive Stories from Writing Center Margins (Utah State University Press, May 2024).
In addition to multiliteracy and writing pedagogy, Dr. Lee enjoys teaching and publishing articles on literature. With a Ph.D. in English and American Literature, Dr. Lee specialized in Anglo-American transatlantic literature, 19th c American literature, and periodical literature.
As Faculty Director of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center, Dr. Lee successfully secured over $2.3 million in external funds and internal grants to expand and improve programming in STEM writing, embedded tutoring, and data literacy. She is also one of the founders and coordinators of CSUCI's annual Plot-A-Thon: Data Visualization Festival. She enjoys promoting and expanding the culture of writing and communication at CI by constantly innovating ways to support all its students.
Selected Publications and Editorships
Books
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter, editors. The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media. Routledge Press. July 2013. Nominated for IWCA Outstanding Book/Major Work Award for 2013.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. Design for Composition: Creative Projects for Inspired Visual and Multimodal Arguments. Parlor Press, September 2023.
Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Sohui Lee, and Julie Prebel, editors. Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices From Writing Center Margins. Forthcoming Utah State University Press, May 2024
Guest Editorship of Peer-Reviewed Journal
Russell Carpenter and Sohui Lee, Eds. "Pedagogies of Multimodality and the Future of Multiliteracy Centers." Special issue of Computers and Composition: An International Journal. September 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters in Book Collections
Julia Bleakney, Mark Hall, Kelsey Hixson-Bowles, Sohui Lee, and Nathalie Singh-Corcoran. “Timely, Relevant, Practical: A Study of Writing Center Summer Institute Perceptions of Value and Benefits.” Writing Center Journal. Vol. 41. No.3. Winter 2023.
Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Sohui Lee, and Julie Prebel. "Whose Voices Are Heard? A Demographic Comparison of Authors Published in WLN, 2005-2007." WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, vol. 45, no.7-8. March/April 2021.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. "Start-Up Multiliteracy Centers and Faculty Collaboration on Multimodal Pedagogy." Special Issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, vol. 44, no. 1-2, pp. 11-18. Sept/Oct 2019.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. “Transferring Creativity Across Disciplines: Creative Thinking for 21st Century Composing Practices.” Writing in and About the Performing and Visual Arts: Creating, Performing, and Teaching. Editors Steven J. Corbett, Teagen E. Decker, and Betsy Cooper. University Press of Colorado. 2019.
Sohui Lee and Jarret Krone. "Brochures: Helping Students Make Good Design Decisions."
In Multimodal Composing: Strategies for Twenty-First-Center Writing Consultations (Collection). Editors Lindsay Sabatino and Brian Fallon. Utah State University Press.
April 14, 2019. See 2020 Praxis review of Sabatino and Fallon's collection with mention of Lee and Krone's chapter.
Sohui Lee and Russ E. Carpenter. “Introducing Multiliteracies Through Scientific Research
Posters.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, 2018.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. "Future Pedagogies of Applied Creative Thinking in
Multiliteracy Centers: How Creative Thinking "Opens the Ways" for Better Habits of
Mind." In Future Scholar: Researching & Teaching the Frameworks for Writing & Information Literacy (Collection). Eds. James Purdy and Randall McClure. Information Today, Inc. June
2016.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. "Creative Thinking for 21st Century Composing Practices: Creativity Pedagogies Across
Disciplines." Special Issue of Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. December 2015.
Sohui Lee. "Situated Design for Multiliteracy Centers: A Rhetorical Approach for Visual Design." SDC: A Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation, vol 19, no. 1, 2014.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. “Navigating Literacies in Multimodal Spaces.” In Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media (collection). With Russell Carpenter. Routledge. July 2013.
Sohui Lee and Chris Golde. "Completing the Dissertation and Beyond: Writing Center and the Dissertation Boot Camp." (PDF, 231KB) With Chris Golde. Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 37, no. 7-8, 2013. Nominated for IWCA Outstanding Article Award for 2013.
Sohui Lee, Christine Alfano, and Russell Carpenter. "Invention in Two Parts: Multimodal Communication in Space Design in the Writing Center" With Christine Alfano and Russell Carpenter. In Cases for Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology. Ed. Russell Carpenter. IGI Global Press: January 2013.
- Reprinted in Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (3 Volumes). Hershey, Penn.: IGI Global, June 2014.
Valerie Balester, Nancy Grimm, Sohui Lee, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, David Sheridan, and Naomi Silver. "The Idea of a Multiliteracy Center: Six Responses." Praxis, vol. 9, no. 2, 2012.
Sohui Lee. "Fair Use and the Vulnerability of Criticism on the Internet." Composition and Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Text-making, and Fair Use (Collection). Ed. Steve Westbrook. SUNY Press, 2008.
Sohui Lee. “Manifest Empire: How U.S. Rivalry with Great Britain Shaped Manifest Destiny.” Romantic Border Crossings (collection). Eds. Jeffrey Cass and Larry Peer. Ashgate Publishing, 2008.
- Reprinted in Routledge Historical Resources: Romanticism (online collection). Editors Duncan Wu, John Strachan, and Jane Moore. Routledge Press, 2019.
Sohui Lee. “‘An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling’: Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review.” “Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic”: Essays in Romanticism (collection). Eds. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2006.
Sohui Lee. “Anglophobia” and “Jacobin.” Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. Eds. Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson. Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005.
Sohui Lee. “‘[O]ur American kinsman’: British Nationalism and Book Reviews of American Literature in the 1840s.” Romanticism on the Net. Electronic journal dedicated to British and American Romanticism. May-August 2005.
Sohui Lee. “Hawthorne’s Politics of Storytelling: Two ‘Tales of the Province House’ and the Specter of Anglomania in the Democratic Review.” American Periodicals. April 2004.
Sohui Lee. “The Guillotine and the American Public: A Godwinian Reading of The Scarlet Letter.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. Ed. Richard Gravil, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000: pp. 152-72.
Media and Webinars
"Writing the Tutors' Column: From Submitting to Revising." Co-host and Presenter with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julie Prebel. WLN Webinar. October 15, 2019. 72 registered.
"Finding Ideas for Scholarship in Writing Center Work: Strategies for Preparing Your Ideas for Publication." Co-host and Presenter with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julia Prebel. WLN Webinar. June 28, 2019. 75 registered.
"WPA as Hero: Scholar's Journey to Publication." Co-host and Presenter with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julie Prebel. WLN Webinar. October 26, 2018. 80 registered.
“Introduction to Publishing in WLN.” With Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julia Prebel as hosts. WLN Webinar. February 23, 2018. 122 participants registered.
“Meet the Author.” Live Interview. Discussion Series. peercentered.org. October 21, 2013. Web.
“Adventures in Writing.” Online Interview. Lagunita, Stanford University Online Courses. January 12, 2015. (https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/VPUE/PWR/AdventuresinWriting)
Selected Conference Presentations Since 2005
Ekin Pehlivan, Sohui Lee, and Taylan Yalcin. "Plot-A-Thon: A Constructivist Approach to Building Data Literacy Across Campus." Academy of Marketing Science - World Marketing Congress. Bel Ombre, Mauritius. June 25-June 30, 2024.
Sohui Lee, Julie Prebel, and Elizabeth Kleinfeld. “An Alternative Publishing Universe: Disrupting Writing Center Editing & Publishing Practices, Privileges, and Power Dynamics.” International Writing Center Association. Baltimore, MD. October 11-14, 2023.
Sohui Lee, Cristal Gamez, and Daniel Lenz. “Multiliteracy Beyond Tutoring: Expanding Multiliteracy Through Multimodal Asynchronous Feedback Training, Multivalent STEM Outreach, Multidisciplinary Data Storytelling Competition.” International Writing Center Association. Baltimore, MD. October 11-14, 2023.
Sohui Lee and Abigail Michelini. “Asynchronous Tutoring Using VoiceThread Feedback: Exploring the Equity of Integrating Multimodal Communication in Asynchronous Tutoring.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 9-12, 2022. Chicago, Illinois.
Sohui Lee, Julie Prebel, and Elizabeth Kleinfeld. “Rethinking Publishing in Writing Center Studies: Imagining an Anti-Racist, Decolonial, Anti-Ableist Publishing Model.” International Writing Center Association. Virtual Conference. October 20-23, 2021.
Sohui Lee, Julia Bleakney, Mark Hall, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, Kelsey Hixson-Bowles, “We Are All Writing Teachers: Returning to a Common Place.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, Washington. April 7-10, 2021.
Sohui Lee, Julie Prebel, and Elizabeth Kleinfeld. “Active Citizenship in Publishing: Evaluating Diversity in Writing Center Scholarship.” International Writing Center Association. Atlanta, Georgia. October 10-13, 2018.
Sohui Lee and Colleen Keith-Harris. “Digital Literacy as Precondition for Wonder: Measuring Student Efficacy, Access, and Learning Preferences.” Computers and Composition Conference. University of Findlay. Findlay, OH. June 1-4, 2017.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. “Developing Strategies for Creative Literacies: Cultivating Multimodal Composition Spaces of Wonder.” Computers and Composition Conference. University of Findlay. Findlay, Ohio. June 1–4, 2017.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. “Integrating Creative Thinking Into Writing Center Pedagogy: Approaches and Strategies.” Workshop Session. International Writing Center Association (IWCA). Pittsburgh, PA. October 8-10, 2015.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. “Creative Technoliteracies: Drawing on Creativity to Improve Multimodal Pedagogy” Computers and Writing Conference. University of Wisconsin, Stout. May 28-31, 2015.
Sohui Lee. “Literacy Identities and Accessibility of Pedagogy: Improving Accessibility for Multiliteracies.” Southeastern Writing Center Association. Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN. February 19-21, 2015.
Sohui Lee, Lindsay Sabatino, Russell Carpenter, Karen Head, Valerie Balester, and Stacy Wilder. “Emerging Multiliteracy Centers: Evolving into Digital and Multimedia Realms.” International Writing Center Association / National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Orlando, Florida. October 30-November 1, 2014.
Sohui Lee and Russ E. Carpenter. “Designing and Speaking Research: Convolutions of Teaching Multimodal Communication in the Sciences.” Computers and Writing Conference. Washington State University. Pullman, WA. June 5-8, 2014.
Sohui Lee. “Designing Creativity: Roles of Technology in Creative Multimodal Projects.” Computers and Writing Conference. Frostburg State University. Frostburg, Maryland. June 6-9, 2013.
Sohui Lee. “Rhetoric +: Introducing Multimodal Thinking.” International Writing Center Association. San Diego, CA. October 25-27, 2012.
Sohui Lee and Julia Bleakney. “Correlating Writing Center ‘Pitches’ and Tutorial Visits: A Mixed Methods Study.” International Writing Center Association. San Diego, CA. October 25-27, 2012.
Sohui Lee, Russell Carpenter, and Christine Alfano. “ArchiTEXTure of Invention in Two Writing Centers: New Media and the Multimodal Invention Process.” Computers and Writing Conference. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. May 17, 2012-May 20, 2012.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. “The Texts and Architectures of Multimodal Invention.” Southeastern Writing Center Association. Eastern Kentucky University. Feb 16-Feb 18, 2012.
Sohui Lee. “From Writing Center to Multiliteracies Center: Imagining the Twenty-First Century.” Roundtable. Computers and Writing Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. May 19-22, 2011.
Sohui Lee. “Writing Center and the Dissertation Boot Camp: History, Models, and Recommendation for Boot Camp Start Up.” International Writing Centers Association. Baltimore, Maryland. November 4-6, 2010.
Sohui Lee. “Copyright and Rhetorical Invention: Changing Scholarly Identity in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). New York, NY. March 21-24, 2007.
Sohui Lee. “Teaching Writing in the Age of Visual Literacy: Reading Visual Grammar and Visualizing Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL. March 22-25, 2006.
Sohui Lee. “Teaching Rhetorical PowerPoint in the Classroom.” Computers and Writing Conference. Stanford University. Stanford, CA. June 16-19, 2005.
Sohui Lee. “Writing Competence vs. Performance: Revising our Teaching Goals in terms of Deep Learning Reception.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Francisco, CA. March 16-19, 2005.
External Grants
Plot-A-Thon Data Visualization Festival
$120,000. The Trade Desk, 2023 and 2024.
STEM Writing Initiative at CSUCI
$719, 322 (over five years). Part of Project AYUDAS, HSI STEM Grant, U.S. Department
of Education. 2022-2026.
Peer to Peer Embedded Writing Program
$639, 900 (over three years). Data Philanthropy. 2022-2024.
Awards and Recognitions
Best Practices Recognition in Continuous Improvement at Channel Islands for Plot-A-Thon,
CSU Channel Islands, 2023
Assigned Time for Exceptional Level of Service to Students Award. CSUCI, 2022.
RSCA Grant ($4,406), CSU Channel Islands, 2021.
RSCA Grant ($2320), CSU Channel Islands, 2020.
IWCA Research Grant ($1000). IWCA, 2020.
RSCA Grant ($2000), CSU Channel Islands, 2018.
Research Award ($5000), Program in Writing & Rhetoric, Vice Provost Office of Undergraduate
Education, Stanford University, 2010.
Research Award ($5000), Program in Writing & Rhetoric, Vice Provost Office of Undergraduate
Education, Stanford University, 2010.
Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Scholarship for outstanding graduate work in
the humanities. 1999.
Humanities Foundation Grant ($5000), Boston University, 1999.
Dean's Research and Travel Award ($2000), Boston University, 1996, 1997, 1998.
Presidential University Scholarship, Boston University, 1995-2001.
Presidential University Fellowship, Boston University, 1995-2001.
Barbara Ladd Gates Award for Intellectual Achievement, UCLA, 1993.