Her research interests include Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), particularly AI integration in language learning. She is also interested in how telecollaboration and virtual exchange can connect learners globally for intercultural communication. 

Her teaching at Duke Kunshan focuses on English for Academic Purposes (EAP), with an emphasis on helping students master the genres and rhetorical structures of their specific disciplines.

Lee has a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California Berkeley and an M.A. in English T.E.S.O.L. from San Francisco State University. Before joining Duke Kunshan, she was a lecturer in the English Language Teaching Unit at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.