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Emily Weissbourd is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Lehigh University. She specializes in early modern English and Spanish literatures with a focus on representations of race, gender, and sexuality in transnational contexts.
Her educational background includes a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania (2011). Prior to joining Lehigh, she held an Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, a critical writing teaching fellowship at University of Pennsylvania, and a visiting assistant professorship at Bryn Mawr College.
Weissbourd's research spans multiple intersecting fields that examine power dynamics in early modern contexts:
- Early modern representations of race, religion, gender and sexuality
- Tudor and Stuart drama and the Spanish comedia
- Transnational studies and translation
- Shakespearean afterlives in popular culture
- Critical race theory applications to historical texts
Her scholarly work demonstrates consistent engagement with how early modern literature intersects with contemporary discussions of race and identity. Her publications reveal a trajectory that moves from examining specific textual representations to broader cultural analyses of how these representations continue to shape modern discourse, particularly evident in her 2023 monograph Bad Blood: Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain.
Weissbourd serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the English Department, overseeing MA and PhD programs. Her teaching portfolio includes courses such as 'Old Books, New Problems,' 'Shakespeare's Teenagers,' 'Imagined Worlds: Utopia and Dystopia in Literature and Film,' and 'Early Modern Race and Empire.' She has mentored numerous graduate students through thesis and dissertation work, though specific names are not listed in available materials.
