James Y. Lee is a Korean-American student, film critic, and screenwriter living in the Chicago area, and a proud affiliate member of the Chicago Indie Critics. He is currently studying film at Northwestern University. (He's also probably praised way too many films from the 2010s as "modern classics.")

Will's day job is teaching film and screen studies at Syracuse University, where he is an associate professor in the Department of English. He is the author of GENE TIERNEY: STAR OF HOLLYWOOD'S HOME FRONT (Wayne State University Press, 2022) and, with Julie Grossman, co-author of the "TV Milestones" volume TWIN PEAKS (Wayne State University Press, 2020).