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Professor Scott C. Lucas serves as Department Head and Professor of English in the Department of English, Fine Arts, and Communications within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. He received his B.A. with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988, and his Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 1997, where his dissertation, directed by Annabel Patterson, was titled 'Tragic Poetry as Political Resistance: A Mirror for Magistrates, 1554-1563.' Lucas joined The Citadel in Fall 1998 as Assistant Professor of English, was promoted to Associate Professor in Fall 2003, to Professor in Fall 2010, and appointed Department Head in Spring 2018. Earlier in his career, he served as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at North Carolina State University from 1997 to 1998 and as Instructor and Teaching Assistant in Duke University's Department of English and University Writing Program from 1991 to 1996, teaching courses in composition, introduction to literature, hardboiled fiction, and literature and political theory.

Scott Lucas specializes in the literature and culture of Renaissance England, focusing on the intersections of literature, politics, and religion in sixteenth-century English writings. He is the author of two scholarly monographs: 'A Mirror for Magistrates' and the Politics of the English Reformation (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), a study of Tudor-period political literature, and A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in leading journals including Reformation, Review of English Studies, Huntington Library Quarterly, Spenser Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Studies in Philology, as well as chapters in Oxford Handbooks and edited collections from Manchester University Press, Boydell Press, and Ashgate. Key publications include 'The Birth and Later Career of the Author William Baldwin (d. 1563)' (Huntington Library Quarterly, 2016), 'Henry Lord Stafford, “The Two Rogers,” and the Creation of A Mirror for Magistrates, 1554-1563' (Review of English Studies, 2015), 'A Renaissance Man and his “Medieval” Text: William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates, 1547-1563' (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and co-authored 'From Court to Community: Francis Seager's Certayne Psalmes and the Popularization of Mid-Tudor Scriptural Verse' (Reformation, 2022). Lucas has also contributed to reference works such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, and edited selections for scholarly editions.