Dr. Tara Lyons
Associate Professor
English
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 420b
Office Hours
Thursdays 3:15- 4pm
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- About
- Education
- Research
Biography
Ph.D. in English Literature in 2011 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Current Courses
299.001Independent Honor Study
499.001Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
Teaching Interests & Areas
Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, Bibliography and Book History, Textual Studies, and Gender Studies
Research Interests & Areas
Her research interests include early modern drama, book history, and gender studies.
Ph D English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA English and Rhetoric
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Book, Chapter
Lyons, T. Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern Stage. Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence and Gender in Early Modern Literature and the Arts. Ed. Mara Wade. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press (2013): 211-231.
Journal Article
Lyons, T. Serials, Spinoffs, and Histories: Selling ‘Shakespeare’ in Collection before the First Folio. Philological Quarterly 91.2 (2012): 185-220.
Presentations
The Dangers of Commonplacing: Reading Seneca in the English Drama Collection. Society of Textual Studies. (2014)
Universal Short Title Catalogue Review. Shakespeare Association of America. (2014)
Collecting ‘Shakespeare’ before the Folio. Harvard Humanities Center’s Shakespeare Seminar Series. (2013)
Playing the Part: The Success of Serial Plays on the London Stage. Shakespeare Association of America. (2013)
Rewriting a History of the English Play Collection: Serials, Part-Plays, and Tamburlaine (1590). International Marlowe Conference. (2013)
Whereby she caught her shame: Norton’s Treatises, Mary Queen of Scots, and The Tragedy for Ferrex and Porrex (1570). Harvard Humanities Center’s Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar Series. (2013)
Digging in DEEP: Teaching Shakespeare in Print with the Database of Early English Playbooks. Renaissance Society of America Conference. (2012)
Institutional Drama in Print: Remembering the Children of Paul’s. Shakespeare Association of America Conference. (2012)
Collaborative Authorship and the Shakespeare Myth. Assumption College. (2011)
The Pavier Quartos and Selling Shakespeare in Serial. Shakespeare Association of America Conference. (2011)
Grants & Contracts
"Shakespearience: A Day in the Life of the Bard". Alice and Fannie Fell Trust. Illinois State University. (2017)