Crystal Yin Lie

Crystal Yin Lie is an Assistant Professor of Comparative World Literature at California University, Long Beach, where she teaches courses in disability studies, health humanities, literature & medicine, and comics & graphic narratives. Her research interests include contemporary literature and life writing about dementia and the representation of disability in comics. She received her PhD in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor with a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, & Society. Her work can be found in Graphic Medicine (University of Hawai’i Press), Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, and The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. She was a co-editor of Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies (University of Michigan Press) and is currently co-editing a volume on Disability and Comics (Palgrave).