Dr. Sohui Lee
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
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.
Teaching
Professor and Faculty Director, Writing & Multiliteracy Center, 91视频, 2025-present
Chair, Library & Learning Resources, Broome Library, 91视频, 2024-2025; 2026-present
Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Writing & Multiliteracy Center, 91视频, 2020-2025
Assistant Professor and Faculty Director, Writing & Multiliteracy Center, 91视频, 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
Selected Awards, Gifts, & Grants
Best Book Award of 2025, Council of Writing Program Administration (CWPA) for Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices from Writing Center Margins, Utah State University Press (2024, co-editor with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julie Prebel).
Best Practices Recognition in Continuous Improvement at Channel Islands for Plot-A-Thon, Division of Academic Affairs, 2023
Assigned Time for Exceptional Level of Service to Students, CSU Channel Islands, Spring 2022
1.3M Gift Award from Dataphilanthropy for "Broadening Student Impact: Proposal for Writing & Multiliteracy Center and Learning Resources Center," 2025-2026.
1.2M Gift from Dataphilanthropy for "Expanding and Enhancing Peer to Peer Support: Proposal for Writing & Multiliteracy Center," 2022-2025.
$120,000 Gift from The Trade Desk for "Plot-A-Thon: Proposal for Data Visualization Festival," 2023 and 2024.
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. Dr. Lee studied under Andrea Lunsford, a nationally renown rhetoric scholar and former writing center director. 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, Dr. Lee 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: Amplifying Voices from Writing Center Margins (Utah State University Press, May 2024), awarded Best Book of 2025 by the prestigious Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA).
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.
During her tenure as Faculty Director of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center, Dr. Lee successfully secured over $7.9 million in external gifts, grants, and sponsorships to expand and improve programming in STEM writing, embedded tutoring, and data literacy at Cal State Channel Islands. She is also one of the founders and coordinators of 91视频's annual : 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
Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Sohui Lee, and Julie Prebel, editors. Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices From Writing Center Margins. Forthcoming Utah State University Press, May 2024
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter. Design for Composition: Creative Projects for Inspired Visual and Multimodal Arguments. Parlor Press, September 2023.
Sohui Lee and Russell Carpenter, editors. The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media. Routledge Press. July 2013.
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
Sohui Lee and Abigail Michelini. "Beyond Convenience: A Mixed Method Study of Asynchronous Multimodal Tutoring and Its Impact on Understanding and Connection." Writing Center Journal, vol. 43, no. 1. Spring 2025. https://doi.org/.
Julia Bleakney, Mark Hall, Kelsey Hixson-Bowles, Sohui Lee, and Nathalie Singh-Corcoran. 鈥淭imely, Relevant, Practical: A Study of Writing Center Summer Institute Perceptions of Value and Benefits.鈥� 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. 鈥淭ransferring Creativity Across Disciplines: Creative Thinking for 21st Century Composing Practices.鈥� 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 of Sabatino and Fallon's collection with mention of Lee and Krone's chapter.
Sohui Lee and Russ E. Carpenter. 鈥淚ntroducing Multiliteracies Through Scientific Research
Posters.鈥� 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. "." 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. 鈥淣avigating Literacies in Multimodal Spaces.鈥� In Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media (collection). With Russell Carpenter. Routledge. July 2013.
Sohui Lee and Chris Golde. "." (, 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. "." 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. 鈥�.鈥� 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. 鈥溾�楢n Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling鈥�: Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review.鈥� 鈥淪ullen Fires Across the Atlantic鈥�: Essays in Romanticism (collection). Eds. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2006.
Sohui Lee. 鈥淎nglophobia鈥� and 鈥淛acobin.鈥� Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. Eds. Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson. Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005.
Sohui Lee. 鈥溾�榌O]ur American kinsman鈥�: British Nationalism and Book Reviews of American Literature in the 1840s.鈥� Romanticism on the Net. Electronic journal dedicated to British and American Romanticism. May-August 2005.
Sohui Lee. 鈥淗awthorne鈥檚 Politics of Storytelling: Two 鈥楾ales of the Province House鈥� and the Specter of Anglomania in the Democratic Review.鈥� American Periodicals. April 2004.
Sohui Lee. 鈥淭he Guillotine and the American Public: A Godwinian Reading of The Scarlet Letter.鈥� Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. Ed. Richard Gravil, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000: pp. 152-72.
Media and Webinars
"." Co-host and Presenter with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julie Prebel. WLN Webinar. October 15, 2019. 72 registered.
"." Co-host and Presenter with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julia Prebel. WLN Webinar. June 28, 2019. 75 registered.
"." Co-host and Presenter with Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julie Prebel. WLN Webinar. October 26, 2018. 80 registered.
鈥�.鈥� With Elizabeth Kleinfeld and Julia Prebel as hosts. WLN Webinar. February 23, 2018. 122 participants registered.
鈥淢eet the Author.鈥� Live Interview. Discussion Series. . October 21, 2013. Web.
鈥淎dventures in Writing.鈥� Online Interview. Lagunita, Stanford University Online Courses. January 12, 2015. (https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/VPUE/PWR/AdventuresinWriting)