Dr Christopher Leslie

Dr Christopher Leslie

Assistant Professor of English

PhD English with a certificate in American Studies (2007, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, USA)

MA Liberal Studies with a focus on American Studies (2000, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, USA)

BA English with honors in Liberal Education (1991, State University of New York at Fredonia, USA)

Specializations: AI ethics and literacy; diversity, equity, and inclusion; science, technology and society

Email: christopher.l@psu.ac.th

Phone: +66 74 286742

Profile

Dr Leslie’s research focuses on the intersections among science, technology, and society. This results in academic papers and projects with an interdisciplinary focus, such as the interactions between science and literature, the history of technology, the social construction of race and gender, and STEM education. A two-time recipient of a Fulbright award, Dr. Leslie has also taught at John Jay College, Hunter College, the University of Potsdam (Germany), New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and the South China University of Technology. He is chair of the International Federation of Information Processing’s working group on the history of computing. His personal website is chrisleslie.info

Teaching and Research Supervision

Courses

  • Academic English

Theses Supervised

  • Exploring Queer Pedagogy in Myanmar: Empowering Inclusivity in English Language Teaching (MA)
  • Microaggressions in Thai English Language Classrooms and Perceptions of LGBTQ+ Inclusion: Perspectives from LGBTQ+ and Non-LGBTQ+ English Major Students (MA)
  • Translanguaging Practices in TBLT cycle: GenAI-Mediation in Promoting Linguistic and Local Identities (MA)
  • An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of ChatGPT in Enhancing Students’ Job Interview Response Skills and Perceptions on Vocational Certificate Level 3 (MA)

Publications

Monograph

Leslie, C. (2023). From Hyperspace to Hypertext: Masculinity, Globalization, and Their Discontents. Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Volumes

Leslie, C. (Ed.) (2026). Histories of Computing in Asia. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer.

Leslie, C. & Krepps, D. (Eds.) (2023). Current Directions in ICT and Society. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer.

Leslie, C. & Schmitt, M. (Eds.) (2019). Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe: IFIP Working Group 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer.

Leslie, C. & Tatnall, A. (Eds.) (2016). International Communities of Invention and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer.

Journal Articles

Leslie, C. (2025). The science of sea voyages: Challenges to discourses of difference in travel literature About Southeast Asia. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 40(2), 189–220.

Leslie, C. (2021). Revisiting Friedrich Engels’s dialectics of nature in an age of digital idealism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 19(1), 78-96.

Leslie, C. (2020). ‘Melanctha was too many for him’: Gertrude Stein’s challenges to essentialism in Three Lives. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 22 (3), 262–307.

Leslie, C. (2020). As we could have thought: Deploying historical narratives of the memex in support of innovation. Technology and Culture, 61(2), 480–511.

Leslie, C. (2002). ‘Fighting an unseen enemy’: The infectious paradigm in the conquest of pellagra. Journal of Medical Humanities, 23, 187–202.

Book Chapters

Leslie, C. (2026). Denaturalizing the hegemony of Internet English with the history of telegraphy. In: Leslie, C. (ed) Histories of Computing in Asia. HC 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 739. Springer, Cham.

Leslie, C. (2024). The future of the history of computing. In: Leslie, C., Kreps, D. (eds) Current Directions in ICT and Society. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 700. Springer, Cham.

Leslie, C. (2020). On diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing: Finding allies in overrepresented populations. In: Strous, L., Johnson, R., Grier, D.A., Swade, D. (eds) Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 555. Springer, Cham.