Melissa Karmen Lee 李林嘉敏 is a visual arts curator and literature scholar and the Director of Education and Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her previous appointments include Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Art, Hong Kong, David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University, and English Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has published on art and literature including Protest as Polyphony: Raqs Media Collective (ASAP Journal), Hospitality and Chinese Diasporic fiction (Routledge Press), “Diasporic Literature: The Politics of Identity and Language” (Journal of Asian Pacific Communications), and “The Politics of Fiction: A Response to New Orientalism in Type” (Journal of Multicultural Discourses).