Lee Emrich, PhD

• University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
• PhD in English
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Magna Cum Laude
• Bachelor of Arts in English
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing

  TEACHING
  University of California, Davis
  • English Grammar
  • Renaissance Love Poetry
  • Pop Culture Shakespeare
  • Writers’ Workshop
  • Introduction to Literature
  • Expository Writing
  • World Cities
  • History of Western Civilization
  • Introduction to Film
  • Shakespeare
  • Law & Literature

Lee Emrich has taught English and History in university classrooms for the last eight years. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California at Davis. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from The Ohio State University where she graduated with honors and research distinction, winning awards for her research. At the college level, she has taught canonical courses on European history, Shakespeare, Renaissance Love Poetry, Women’s Writing, and English Grammar. She has also pioneered such courses as Medical Humanities and Pop Culture Shakespeare. Lee has also worked in editing on The Norton Anthology of Poetry and for Cambridge University Press. She loves sparking curiosity about the world and history through literature, but also focuses on rhetorical positioning in writing. In her spare time, Lee loves cooking, traveling, seeing art, playing the piano, and photography.