Katja Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6877-9624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Life Writing as Automedia
This article argues that influencer memoirs are forms of automedia and uses network theory to suggest that these memoirs need to be analyzed with other auto-medial work. a case study exploring a memoir along-side social media activity reveals influencer memoirs as more flexible and interdependent than previously recognized
Performing Lives, Producing Life
This special issue on life writing and persona marks the 15th issue of Persona Studies and the culmination and end point of my eight years working as one of four Managing Editors of the journal. It is both fitting and very exciting then, to be able to wrap up this journey with an exploration of two fields that have long fascinated me: Life Writing Studies and Persona Studies. Indeed, life writing seems both an obvious and natural home for studyin…
Online Conference
The online conference does not and cannot replicate the flow and feel of a face-to-face experience; instead, it offers something new.We saw the timing and the mode of the conference as a chance to ask hard questions about the ground that persona studies has carved as an emerging field of study. We wanted to ensure that persona studies is a space for new voices and new directions of inquiry, and to provide a conference space that is entirely built…
Acafan methodologies and giving back to the fan community
In fan studies, researchers are encouraged to share their research with the fan communities they study, with some even suggesting that such a practice can be a way to ethically give back to the community. During a multiyear study of adult fans of Lego, several different ways to share research with the fan community were trialed and evaluated for their relative strengths. Community responses to these projects determined that both academic and crea…
Honorary degrees for celebrities
The conferring of an honorary degree on an entertainment celebrity has become an increasingly regular and routine practice, a symptom of how readily the value and capital accumulated in entertainment industries can be converted into value in another field like academia. In this paper, we argue that the celebrity persona is a crucial factor in easing what Driessens has called ‘the exchange rate’ of such movements across fields of activity. As a ca…
Limelight
Examines the celebrity autobiography and how it has changed in form, function, and content over the last 115 years. Focusing on the autobiographies of famous Canadian women, it charts a history of fame in English Canada and examines the influence of gender and nation in the experience and representation of fame in an autobiography.
Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’
In 1918, MacLean’s magazine published an extensive profile of Canadian-born silent screen superstar, Mary Pickford. Spanning three issues and inclusive of twenty-seven photographs, ‘Our Mary’ was one of the most substantial profiles of a public figure ever published by the magazine, and it was written by no less a personality than the eminently respected, popular Canadian writer Arthur Stringer. Yet Stringer does not seem entirely at ease with ce…
Five Dimensions of Online Persona
Before Facebook, Twitter, and most of the digital media platforms that now form routine parts of our online lives, Jay Bolter (2000) anticipated that online activities would reshape how we understand and produce identity: a 'networked self', he noted, 'is displacing Cartesian printed self as a cultural paradigm' (2000, p. 26). The twenty-first century has not only produced a proliferation and mass popularisation of platforms for the production of…
Contemporary Publics
If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the sing
Contemporary Publics
Contemporary Publics
Not Just Ghost Stories
Reading celebrity autobiographies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatja LeeKatja Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Ontario. Her dissertation examines the production of women’s celebrity autobiography in Canada across the twentieth century. She is co-editor of the forthcoming collection Far & Wide: Celebrity Cultures in Canada, and has authored multiple articles and chapters on celebrity life writing
Reconsidering Rap's “I”
The discourse of authenticity in rap has been and continues to be bound up in the performance of self. This paper examines the extraordinary potential for playing with subjectivity already available in the genre in order to map Eminem's success in renegotiating rap's constructions of identity authenticity to make space for his white body and his success in posturing a multiple, subversive, sometimes fictional, and yet still autobiographical “I.” …
Five Dimensions of Online Persona
Before Facebook, Twitter, and most of the digital media platforms that now form routine parts of our online lives, Jay Bolter (2000) anticipated that online activities would reshape how we understand and produce identity: a 'networked self', he noted, 'is displacing Cartesian printed self as a cultural paradigm' (2000, p. 26). The twenty-first century has not only produced a proliferation and mass popularisation of platforms for the production of…
Not Just Ghost Stories
Reading celebrity autobiographies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatja LeeKatja Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Ontario. Her dissertation examines the production of women’s celebrity autobiography in Canada across the twentieth century. She is co-editor of the forthcoming collection Far & Wide: Celebrity Cultures in Canada, and has authored multiple articles and chapters on celebrity life writing
Honorary degrees for celebrities
The conferring of an honorary degree on an entertainment celebrity has become an increasingly regular and routine practice, a symptom of how readily the value and capital accumulated in entertainment industries can be converted into value in another field like academia. In this paper, we argue that the celebrity persona is a crucial factor in easing what Driessens has called ‘the exchange rate’ of such movements across fields of activity. As a ca…
Reconsidering Rap's “I”
The discourse of authenticity in rap has been and continues to be bound up in the performance of self. This paper examines the extraordinary potential for playing with subjectivity already available in the genre in order to map Eminem's success in renegotiating rap's constructions of identity authenticity to make space for his white body and his success in posturing a multiple, subversive, sometimes fictional, and yet still autobiographical “I.” …
Not Just Ghost Stories
Reading celebrity autobiographies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatja LeeKatja Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Ontario. Her dissertation examines the production of women’s celebrity autobiography in Canada across the twentieth century. She is co-editor of the forthcoming collection Far & Wide: Celebrity Cultures in Canada, and has authored multiple articles and chapters on celebrity life writing
Contemporary Publics
If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the sing
Contemporary Publics
Contemporary Publics
Five Dimensions of Online Persona
Before Facebook, Twitter, and most of the digital media platforms that now form routine parts of our online lives, Jay Bolter (2000) anticipated that online activities would reshape how we understand and produce identity: a 'networked self', he noted, 'is displacing Cartesian printed self as a cultural paradigm' (2000, p. 26). The twenty-first century has not only produced a proliferation and mass popularisation of platforms for the production of…
Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’
In 1918, MacLean’s magazine published an extensive profile of Canadian-born silent screen superstar, Mary Pickford. Spanning three issues and inclusive of twenty-seven photographs, ‘Our Mary’ was one of the most substantial profiles of a public figure ever published by the magazine, and it was written by no less a personality than the eminently respected, popular Canadian writer Arthur Stringer. Yet Stringer does not seem entirely at ease with ce…
Limelight
Examines the celebrity autobiography and how it has changed in form, function, and content over the last 115 years. Focusing on the autobiographies of famous Canadian women, it charts a history of fame in English Canada and examines the influence of gender and nation in the experience and representation of fame in an autobiography.
Online Conference
The online conference does not and cannot replicate the flow and feel of a face-to-face experience; instead, it offers something new.We saw the timing and the mode of the conference as a chance to ask hard questions about the ground that persona studies has carved as an emerging field of study. We wanted to ensure that persona studies is a space for new voices and new directions of inquiry, and to provide a conference space that is entirely built…
Acafan methodologies and giving back to the fan community
In fan studies, researchers are encouraged to share their research with the fan communities they study, with some even suggesting that such a practice can be a way to ethically give back to the community. During a multiyear study of adult fans of Lego, several different ways to share research with the fan community were trialed and evaluated for their relative strengths. Community responses to these projects determined that both academic and crea…
Honorary degrees for celebrities
The conferring of an honorary degree on an entertainment celebrity has become an increasingly regular and routine practice, a symptom of how readily the value and capital accumulated in entertainment industries can be converted into value in another field like academia. In this paper, we argue that the celebrity persona is a crucial factor in easing what Driessens has called ‘the exchange rate’ of such movements across fields of activity. As a ca…
Performing Lives, Producing Life
This special issue on life writing and persona marks the 15th issue of Persona Studies and the culmination and end point of my eight years working as one of four Managing Editors of the journal. It is both fitting and very exciting then, to be able to wrap up this journey with an exploration of two fields that have long fascinated me: Life Writing Studies and Persona Studies. Indeed, life writing seems both an obvious and natural home for studyin…
Life Writing as Automedia
This article argues that influencer memoirs are forms of automedia and uses network theory to suggest that these memoirs need to be analyzed with other auto-medial work. a case study exploring a memoir along-side social media activity reveals influencer memoirs as more flexible and interdependent than previously recognized
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Persona (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works)