Mi Lee received her B.A. from Stanford in Modern Thought and Literature and also completed a minor in Symbolic Systems (linguistics, psychology, computer science, and analytic philosophy). She thus completed two demanding programs of study, acquired three European languages, wrote an honors thesis on James Joyce, published an essay on Yeats in the journal of the Stanford University Library, and in 2002-2003 taught English at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres in Paris. At Berkeley, Mi Lee plans to specialize in political theory, an appropriate direction, she argues, for someone like herself with a dual background in literature and symbolic systems and a continuing interest in politics and language. Genevieve Guenther, an advanced graduate student in English, will be Mi Lee’s mentor.