Lee L’Clerc

Lee L’Clerc holds a PhD in Painting and Literature from the University of Toronto. His teaching and research areas include visual and performance art, Caribbean and Latin American history, art and literary theory, translation studies, and queer studies. He has written a book and various scholarly articles on the interrelationship between art and literature, art installation, war photography, and queer iconography. As a translator he has worked on a documentary film and a museum exhibition. L’Clerc is also a curator and a Toronto-based artist, with numerous solo and group shows both nationally and internationally, including La Bienal de La Habana.