Stanford University
Modern Thought and Literature
Steven Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in Stanford’s Modern Thought and Literature program. In 2001-02 he was among the inaugural group of Fulbright students to be sent to the Central Asian Republics, where he compared Soviet Korean and Korean American literatures and histories. A graduate of Amherst College, for 2007-08 he is also recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
"Cold War Multiculturalism" traces the interactions of American and Soviet conceptualizations of difference, focusing on how socialist internationalism shaped ethnic literatures and liberal pluralism in the U.S. Examining Jewish American, African American, and Asian American literatures from the 1910s through the 1990s, it seeks to understand how particularism gained currency in post-war America--in part as a counter to the Soviet "friendship of peoples."
Robert Barrick
Fellowship Administrator
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The Humanities Center’s fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from the following individuals, foundations and divisions within Stanford: The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Marta Sutton Weeks, The Mericos Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, as well as from Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education.