Dr Emma Rees

Published work

Books:

• The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History (New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming, 2013).
• Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).

Book Chapters:  

• ‘The “Female Biography” of Dorothy Pakington’, in the Chawton House Library Edition of Mary Hays’s six volume Female Biography (1803), ed. Gina Luria Walker (London: Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming 2014).
• ‘Imagining Ithaca: the Cavendishes in Exile’, in Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England: William and Margaret Cavendish and their Political, Social and Cultural Circles, eds. Peter R. Edwards Elspeth Graham (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2014).
• ‘Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman’, in The Female Body in Medicine and Literature, eds Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2011).
• ‘The Principled Pleasure: Lisbeth’s Aristotelian Revenge’, in ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ and Philosophy, ed. Eric Bronson (New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell, 2011).
• ‘Cordelia’s Can’t: Rhetorics of Reticence and (Dis)ease in King Lear’, in Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England, ed. Jennifer Vaught (London: Ashgate, 2010).
• ‘Shakespeare and the Renaissance’, in Studying English Literature, eds Ashley Chantler and David Higgins (London: Continuum, 2010).
• Entry on ‘Sexual Politics’ for the Encyclopaedia of Sex and Society (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2010).
• Richard E. Wilson and Emma L. E. Rees, ‘Sometimes a Guitar is Just a Guitar: Freudian Fetishism in the lyrics of Led Zeppelin’, in Led Zeppelin and Philosophy, ed. Scott Calef (Chicago: Open Court, 2009).
• ‘A Well-Spun Yarn: Margaret Cavendish and Homer’s Penelope’, in A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, ed. by Stephen Clucas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).
• ‘Triply Bound: Genre and the Exilic Self’, in Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish, ed. by Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz (New Jersey: Associated University Press, 2003).
• ‘Sheela’s Voracity and Victorian Veracity’, in Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ed. by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002).

Journal Articles:

• Chris Ribchester, Kim Ross, and Emma L. E. Rees, ‘Examining the Impact of Pre-induction Social Networking on the Student Transition into Higher Education’, Innovations in Education & Teaching International (forthcoming, 2013).
• ‘‘Sweet honey of the Muses: Lucretian resonance in Poems, and Fancies’, In-Between: Essays in Literary Criticism, 9: 1 & 2 (2000).
• ‘Guest Editor’s Introduction’, Women’s Writing, 4: 3 (1997).
• ‘Heaven’s Library and Nature’s Pictures: Platonic paradigms and trial by genre’, Women’s Writing, 4:3 (1997).

Reviews:

• Book review: Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity edited by Sally Hines and Tam Sanger, GEA (Gender and Education Association; forthcoming, 2013);
• Review essay: ‘Who is it That Can tell Me Who I am?’ GEA (Gender and Education Association), 23.6 (October, 2011), pp. 783-88;
• Book review: Derrida and the Writing of the Body by Jones Irwin, Psychology and Sexuality 2.3 (September, 2011), pp. 265-68;
• Other book reviews for Psychology and Sexuality, Times Higher Education, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Editorships:

• Editor, Lost and Found: Stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature, 2012 (Chester: University of Chester Press, forthcoming, 2013);
• Editor, Still Life: Poems from the Cheshire Prize for Literature, 2010 (Chester: University of Chester Press, 2011);
• Editor, Zoo: Stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature, 2009 (Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2010).