Dr. Lee Su Kim is Associate Professor of English at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her research interests are in Language and Culture, World Englishes and Materials Design. She lectures on Varieties of English and Language, Culture & Communication in the B.A. and Masters programmes at the university.
She is the author of eight books including three bestsellers, Malaysian Flavours (2004), Manglish: Malaysian English at its Wackiest (1998) and A Nyonya In Texas: Insights of a Straits Chinese Woman in the Lone Star State (2007). She has authored texts and resource books on writing, grammar and short stories for secondary children. She is the chief editor of 3 books including Border Crossings: Moving Across Languages and Cultural Frameworks (2007). She was a columnist for The Star, a leading English language newspaper in Malaysia for 3 years. She has also published short stories and poems, and is an invited Writer/Speaker to the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali this year.
Dr Lee Su Kim is also a founder member and the President of the Peranakan Baba Nyonya Association of Kuala Lumpur & Selangor.