Dr. Soyeon Lee
I am Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. My current monograph project explores rhetorics and literacies of transnational and multilingual writers in community contexts, with a focus on climate disaster recovery communication.
My research interests include transnational writing and literacy and environmental rhetorics as well as user experience research for equitable and inclusive design and community-engaged user experience pedagogy in contexts of trans-border and trans-language contexts.
I earned my Ph.D. degree of English with a concentration in Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy from the University of Houston and Graduate Certificate in Teaching Technical Communication at Texas Tech University. My work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, Composition Forum, Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Technical Communication.
Selected Publications
Lee, S. (2024). “User Narratives of Transnational Multilingual Small Business Entrepreneurs in Disaster Relief Programs.” Technical Communication, 71(1), 51-64. doi.org/10.55177/tc716309
Lee, S. (2023). “Disrupting Textual Regimes of Climate Disaster Recovery Governance Through Translation.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 32(3), 254-269. doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2023.2210169
Lee, E., Lee, S., & Kang, M. (2023). “Coalition Building against Anti-Asian Racism: Interweaving Stories of Transnational Asian/American Feminist Survivance.” Peitho, 25(1). cfshrc.org/journal/peitho-volume-26-issue-1-fall-2023/
Lee, S., Turner, H. N., & Rose, E. J. (2023). “Community-Engaged User Experience Pedagogy: Emergent Patterns and Stories.” Communication Design Quarterly, 11(3), 28-41. doi.org/10.1145/3592367.3592371
Lee, S. (2021). “Language Minorities’ Localization in COVID-19 Recovery: An Ecological Approach to Navigating Community-based Multilingual User Experience.” (2021). SIGDOC’21 Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, 183-189. doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473640 (*ACM SIGDOC 2021 Best Paper Award)
