{"id":11,"date":"2022-04-22T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:59:15","slug":"department-head","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/department-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"h-dr-scott-lucas\">Dr. Scott Lucas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/thumbnail_Company-Lucas-CWID-00566-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Scott Lucas\" class=\"wp-image-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/thumbnail_Company-Lucas-CWID-00566-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/thumbnail_Company-Lucas-CWID-00566-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/thumbnail_Company-Lucas-CWID-00566-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/thumbnail_Company-Lucas-CWID-00566.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Scott Lucas received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Duke University. Lucas\u2019s specialty is the literature and culture of Renaissance England, and he has written numerous articles on the intersections of literature, politics, and religion in sixteenth-century English writings. &nbsp;In 2009, he published his first book,&nbsp;<em>A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of English Reformation<\/em>, a study of perhaps the most widely read work of political literature of the Tudor period. His most recent book is&nbsp;<em>A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition<\/em>&nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-degrees\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong>&nbsp;English (Duke University)<br><strong>B.A.<\/strong>&nbsp; (University of California, Berkeley)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/shss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/CV-3-2026.doc\">Vita<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Scott Lucas Professor Scott Lucas received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Duke University. Lucas\u2019s specialty is the literature and culture of Renaissance England, and he has written numerous articles on the intersections of literature, politics, and religion in sixteenth-century English writings. &nbsp;In 2009, he published his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Department Head - Department of English, Fine Arts &amp; Communications<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Scott Lucas is the Department Head for the Department of English, Fine Arts and Communications at The Citadel.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/department-head\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Department Head\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Scott Lucas is the Department Head for the Department of English, Fine Arts and Communications at The Citadel.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/department-head\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of English, Fine Arts &amp; Communications\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-09T17:59:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/thumbnail_Company-Lucas-CWID-00566.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"853\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.citadel.edu\\\/english\\\/department-head\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.citadel.edu\\\/english\\\/department-head\\\/\",\"name\":\"Department Head - 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