SCOTT C. LUCAS
Department of English
The Citadel
(843) 953-5133
Scott.Lucas@Citadel.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Department of English,
B.A.:
DISSERTATION
"Tragic Poetry as Political Resistance: A Mirror for Magistrates, 1554-1563"
Director: Dr. Annabel Patterson, Professor of English,
BOOK
A Mirror for Magistrates and the
Politics of the English Reformation (
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
“Hall’s
Chronicle and A Mirror for Magistrates: History and the Tragic Pattern.” The
“’Let
None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake’: A Mirror for Magistrates, Resistance
Theory, and the
“The
Visionary Genre and the Rise of the ‘Literary’:
Books Under Suspicion and
Early Modern
“Contributors
to A Mirror for Magistrates
(1553-1563).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [Reference Group article]
“Coping
with Providentialism: Trauma, Identity,
and the Failure of the English Reformation.”
Images of Matter. Ed.
Yvonne Bruce.
“The
Consolation of Tragedy: A Mirror for Magistrates and the Fall of
the ‘Good Duke’ of
“’In Abused Sense Truth Oft Miscarries’: Enacting the Limits of Human Knowledge in Fulke Greville’s Caelica.” Renaissance Papers 2001 (2002): 73-86.
"Diggon Davie and Davy Dicar: Edmund Spenser, Thomas Churchyard, and the Poetics of Public Protest," Spenser Studies 16 (2001): 151-165.
"Conspiracy
and Court Revels: Were the 1551-52
Christmas Revels a Plot against Protector Somerset?" Medieval and Renaissance Drama in
"The Suppressed Edition and the Creation of the 'Orthodox' Mirror for Magistrates," Renaissance Papers 1994 (1995): 31-54.
BOOK
REVIEWS AND ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Review
of Dermot Cavanagh’s Literature and
Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play (Palgrave, 2003). Medieval
and Renaissance Drama in
Review
of Andrew Hadfield, ed., Literature and
Censorship in Renaissance
Review
of Kristen Poole, Radical Religion from
Shakespeare to Milton (
"Raphael
Holinshed," "King James IV," "Sir Nicholas
Throckmorton," and "Margaret Tudor." Tudor
Review of Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Reformation 4 (2000): 297-299.
Review of Steven N. Zwicker, Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (Cornell Univ. Press, 1993). Renaissance Quarterly 49 (Winter 1996): 866-867.
Review of Steven Berkowitz, ed., A Critical Edition of George Buchanan's Baptistes and of Its Anonymous Seventeenth-Century Translation Tyrannicall-Government Anatomized (Garland Publishing, 1992). Renaissance Quarterly 47 (Winter 1994): 961-962.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
“Edward Hall’s Two Chronicles.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 22-26, 2008.
“Early
Modern Celebrity Culture: Henry VIII in
Edward Hall’s Chronicle.” New
“Spenser and the Medieval Church,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 25-28, 2007.
“Reformation Historiography in the Long Fifteenth Century: Edward Hall’s Chronicle,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 25-28, 2007.
“Spenser’s
Poetry and the Dream of the
“The Edwardian Succession, the Elizabethan Succession, and the Political Lessons of Gorboduc,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 26-29, 2006.
“From
Politics to Poetics: Thomas Sackville’s A Mirror for Magistrates.” Renaissance Society of
“Let
None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake:” A Mirror
for Magistrates, the English Magistracy, and the Limits of Political
Obedience. New
“The Politics of Lust: Sin, Weakness, and Mary I’s Spanish Marriage in A Mirror for Magistrates.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 20-23, 2005.
“Spenser
and Catholics: A Caveat.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October
27-October 31, 2004.
“’Moulding’ The Social Order in Fulke Greville and George Herbert,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6-9, 2004.
“Humfrey
Duke of
“Spenser and the Commonwealth Ideal.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 30-November 2, 2003.
“The Consolation of Tragedy: A Mirror for Magistrates and the Failure of the English Reformation.” 118th Annual Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2002.
“Spenser and the Question of Causation.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 24-27 2002.
“Mid-Tudor Humanism and the Commonwealth Ideal: Synthesis and Disjuncture.” New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 14-16, 2002.
“Coping with Providentialism: Trauma, Identity, and the Failure of the English Reformation.” Eighth Annual Citadel Conference on Language and Literature, February 7-9, 2002.
“Sexual Saints and Erotic Men of Virtue in The Faerie Queene.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 25-28, 2001.
"'In Abused Sense Truth Oft Miscarries': Enacting the Limits of Human Knowledge in Fulke Greville's Caelica." Southeastern Renaissance Conference, March 23-24, 2001.
“Mutual Duty and Unequal Equality: The Politics of Spenser’s Theory of Social Hierarchy in Mother Hubberds Tale.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, November 2-5, 2000.
Panelist, The Spenser Roundtable Discussion Group, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, November 2-5, 2000
"'In Abused Sense Truth Oft Miscarries': Enacting the Limits of Human Knowledge in Fulke Greville's Caelica." International Medieval Conference, May 4-7, 2000.
"'Unequal Equality': Radical Protestantism and the Question of Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century English Literature." 41st Annual Midwestern Modern Language Association Convention, November 4-6, 1999.
"Diggon Davie and Davy Dicar: Edmund Spenser, Thomas Churchyard, and the Poetics of Public Protest." 34th Annual International Medieval Congress, May 5-9, 1999.
"Reformation
Self-Fashioning: The Textual
Construction of the 'Good Duke' of
"Topicality
and the Therapeutic Uses of Tragedy in A
Mirror for Magistrates" Annual
Meeting of the Renaissance Society of
"The Tragedy of Tudor Foreign Policy in A Mirror for Magistrates." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 23-26, 1997.
"Topicality
and Political Resistance in A Mirror for
Magistrates."
"Brother or 'Other'?: The Problem of English, Scottish, and 'British' Identities in Mid-Sixteenth Century Literature.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference, September 26-29, 1996.
"Conspiracy
and Court Revels: Were the 1551-2
Christmas Revels a Plot against the Duke of
"'Beginning with Law and Ending with Might': Magisterial Corruption and the End of Justice in A Mirror for Magistrates." North American Council on British Studies National Meeting, October 5-8, 1995.
"The Suppressed Edition and the Creation of the 'Orthodox' Mirror for Magistrates." Southeastern Renaissance Conference Fifty-first Annual Meeting, April 8-9, 1994.
"The
'Logic' of the Outcast: Oppression and
Oppositional Inversion in Charles Bukowski's Ham on
Panel Organizer, “The Spenser Roundtable: Spenser and Genre” (also Chair); “Edmund Spenser’s Poetry,” and “Spenserian Intertextuality,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 23-26, 2008.
Panel
Organizer, “The Literary Culture of Reformation
Panel Organizer and Chair, “The Spenser Roundtable: Spenser and Aesthetics,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 26-29, 2006.
Panel Organizer, “Religion, Politics, and Early Elizabethan Literary Culture,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 26-29, 2006.
Panel
Organizer and Chair, “The Spenser Roundtable:
Spenser and
Panel Organizer, “Admonition, Counsel, and Emulation in Tudor Literature,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 20-23, 2005.
Panel Organizer, “The Spenser Roundtable: Spenser and Catholics.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 27-31, 2004.
Chair and Respondent, “John Foxe and the New Textualism,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6-9, 2004.
Panel
Organizer, “The Spenser Roundtable:
Spenser,
Panel Organizer, “English Literature in the Reign of ‘Bloody’ Mary. 118th Annual Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2002.
Panel Organizer, “The Spenser Roundtable: Spenser and Science.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 24-27 2002.
Chair of Panel “Heart, Mind, Soul.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 24-27 2002.
Chair
of Panel “The
Panel Organizer, “The Spenser Roundtable: Spenser and Sex,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, October 25-28, 2001.
Respondent to Panel “Politics and Religion in English and Scottish Literature.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, November 2-5, 2000.
“’An
Atlas to set under his Shoulder’: William Baldwin and the Struggle to Create A Mirror for Magistrates, 1554-1563.” Invited speaker and workshop
participant. “Beware the Author: A
Workshop on William Baldwin.”
“Mid-Tudor
English Political Literature: Exploring
Beyond ‘English’ and ‘Literature’.”
Invited speaker and workshop participant. “The Origins of Early Modern Literature:
Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership.”
“Common
Wealth or Commonwealth?: Social Protest and Social Ideals in the Poetry of
Edmund Spenser.”
“Higher Education Teaching and Administration.” Speaker and panelist, Duke University Career Conference, January 31, 2004
“Faith and Doubt in the Poetry of George Herbert and John Donne.” Shepherd’s Center Lecture Series of the First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, March 27, 2003.
“Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest.” Citadel Friends of the Daniel Library Lecture Series, January 23, 2001.
“King Lear: Wisdom through Suffering.”
“English Literature and the Birth of Protestantism.” Presented as part of The Citadel Senior Scholars Lecture Series, October 10, 2001; and as part of the Shepherd’s Center Lecture Series of the First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, January 31, 2002.
HONORS, AWARDS, AND
GRANTS
Citadel Sabbatical Grant, Spring 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellow, 2003
Krause Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, 2002
Citadel
Development Fund Presentation of Research Grants (17 grants), 1998-2007
Citadel Development Fund
Research Grant, 1998-1999
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1996-1997
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, 1996-1997
John L. Lievsay Fellowship in Renaissance Studies, 1995-1996.
Duke University Department Fellowship, 1990-1994
Graduation
with High Honors,
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of English, The Citadel, Fall 2003-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Citadel, Fall 1998-Spring 2003
Undergraduate courses taught: Sixteenth-century Poetry and Prose, Seventeenth-century Poetry and Prose, English Drama to 1642, Shakespeare Survey, upper and lower division surveys of World Literature before 1650, British Literature Survey I, British Literature Survey II, Rhetoric and Composition, Honors English I: The Aesthetic Context (Classical through Renaissance European Literature); Honors English IV: Studies in British and American Literature (Special topic: Literature and Political Theory); Supervision of numerous Cadet Internships involving work in law firms and with magazine publishers.
Graduate courses taught: Survey of English Renaissance Literature, World Literature Before 1650, Special Topics: Religion, Politics, and English Renaissance Literature.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1997-1998. Courses taught: Composition and Introduction to Literature.
Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Duke University Department of English and University Writing Program, 1991-1996. Courses taught: Composition; seminars on “Hardboiled Fiction”; seminar on “Literature and Political Theory.”
Campus-Wide Service:
Primary Citadel Pre-Law Advisor, 1999-Present
Curriculum Committee: 2008-Present
Scholarship Committee: 2006-Present
Summer Scholarship Committee, 2000-2006
Organizer, Citadel Foundation Humanities Seminar, 1999-2006
Chair, Awards Committee, 2003-2005
Awards Committee, 2001-2002, 2003-2005
Honors Committee: 1999-Present
Chair, Pre-Law Committee, 1999-2001 (Committee discontinued in 2001)
English-Department Service:
Graduate Studies Committee, 2006-Present
Sophomore-Level English Curriculum Committee, 2000-2001
English Major Committee, 1998-1999
Member, Job Search Committees to fill 7 positions, 1998-1999, 2003-2004, 2007-2008, 2008-2009.
Faculty Advisor Positions:
Faculty Advisor, Inn of Court Cadet-Alumni Fraternal Legal Society, 1999-Present
Faculty Advisor, Mock Trial Team, 2000-2005
Faculty Advisor, English Club, 1998-2001
Genre
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Literature and History
Medieval and Renaissance Text Series,
Modern Philology
Reformation
SCHOLARLY
ORGANIZATIONS
International Spenser Society
Modern Language Association
Phi Kappa Phi
Renaissance Society
of
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
Society for Reformation Research
Tyndale Society
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Southern Association of Pre-Law Advisors