About

Rebecca Lemon

Associate Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: rlemon@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3732
Office: THH 429

LINKS
USC english dept placement statistics
 

Education
B.A. , Smith College, 5/1990
B.A. , Cambridge University, 1/1992
Ph.D. Renaissance Literature and Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1/2000
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 05/01/2006-  
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 08/01/2000-05/01/2006  
 

PostDoctoral Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 2003-2004   
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Rebecca Lemon works on Renaissance literature, with a particular interest in theatre, law, and political philosophy. Her first book, Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Early Modern England , appeared in hardcover with Cornell University Press in June 2006, and in paperback in December 2007. She is also interested in critical theory and gender studies, with articles on Shakespeare and Agamben, and Mary Wroth and sexual politics of the lyric. Currently she is working on two projects: an edition of essays on literature and the bible; and a study of addiction in early-modern literature.
 

Research Specialties
Renaissance literature, law, history, political philosophy, and gender studies
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Center for Law, History, and Culture, Steering Committee Member,http://law.usc.edu/academics/centers/clhc/
Early Modern Studies Institute, Seminar Leader: Early Modern Evidence,http://college.usc.edu/emsi/
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
"'Merry Comrads:' Drinking and Masculinity in the Early Modern Tavern", Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Philadelphia, PA, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Fall 2008   
"Heath Drinking in Seventeenth-Century England", British History Seminar, Lecture/Seminar, , Huntington Library, EMSI, Invited, Fall 2008   
"Character Evidence in Shakespeare", UCLA Shakespeare Symposium, Lecture/Seminar, , UCLA, UCLA Medieval Renaissance Center, Invited, Spring 2008   
 

Publications

Book
Lemon, R., Rowland, C. (2008). Blackwell Companion to Literature and the Bible. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lemon, R. (2006). Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
 

Book Chapter
Lemon, R. (2007). Laws and Arms in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. (Vol. NA). London: England: Palgrave.
Lemon, R. (2006). Treason and Tyranny in Macbeth. pp. p.28. New Essays on Macbeth/Routledge.
Lemon, R. (2003). Indecent Exposure in Mary Wroth. (Vol. NA). London: England: in Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens, ed. Clare McManus/Palgrave.
 

Journal Article
Lemon, R. (2002). Scaffolds of Treason in Macbeth. Theatre Journal/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. 25-43.
Lemon, R. (2001). The Faulty Verdict in 'The Crown v. John Hayward'. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p.41.1.
 
 

Honors and Awards
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, CET Mellon Award for Mentoring, 5/1/2006-  
Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007-2008   
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, 2003-2004  
Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, 2003-2004  
Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, 5/16/2003-8/15/2003  
Zumberge Individual Research Grant, 2002  
Phi Beta Kappa, 1990  
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
Director of Graduate Placement, 2006-2008  
 

Committees
Member, Phi Beta Kappa Executive Board, 2006-2008  
 

Service to the Profession

Committees
Member, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting: conference selection committee, 2006-2007   
Member, Shakespeare Association of America annual meeting: program committee member, 2006-2007   
 

Conferences Organized
Co-organizer with Peter Mancall, Addiction in the Early Modern World, Huntington Library, Spring 2006   
 

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Assistant Editor, Blackwell Encyclopedia to Renaissance Literature, 08/01/2008-  
Co-editor, Shakespeare section, Blackwell Literature Compass, 02/2008-  
 

Professional Memberships
North American Association of British Studies, 09/2004-  
Renaissance Society of America, 09/1998-  
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 09/01/1997-  
Shakespeare Association of America, 09/01/1996-  
 
 
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