Tara Lyons
Assistant Professor

Education
B.A. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Specializations
Early Modern Drama, Book History, Gender Studies, and Theater History and Performance

Contact Information
Office: LARTS 326
Phone:
email: tlyons2@umassd.edu

Dr. Tara Lyons received her Ph.D. in English Literature in 2011. Her research interests include early modern drama, book history, and gender studies. She is currently working on a book project that constructs a history of the drama collection in the hundred years before the publication of Benjamin Jonson’s Works(1616) and William Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623). In her book, she aims to redefine the collection and show how the Jonson and Shakespeare folios are inscribed by earlier collections and their organizational frameworks. Her scholarship on Renaissance drama has been published in two edited collections, Locating the Queen's Men (Ashgate, 2009) and Gender Matters (Rodopi, forthcoming 2012).

Having taught an array of English and American literature courses, Dr. Lyons looks forward to designing and implementing experiential learning projects in her classes at UMass-Dartmouth. She will be teaching Introduction to Shakespeare and Literary Studies this fall. She was awarded a Campus Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 2008.