Research Interests
Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference
Education
Ph.D. (English), Duke University; B.A. (British Studies), Yale University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Newcomb, L. H. (2002). Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/newc12378
Recent Publications
Newcomb, L. H. (2020). Frances Wolfreston's Annotations as Labours of Love. In V. Wayne (Ed.), Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England (pp. 243-266). Bloomsbury Academic.
Newcomb, L. H. (2018). Cross-sections (2): 1596-1600. In T. Keymer (Ed.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750 (pp. 55-72). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0004
Newcomb, L. H., Chan, M. M., Gross, H., Lee, S. Y., Ruiz, M. J., Johnston, K. R., O'Toole, K. E., & Wykle, S. (2018). Shakespeare in Snippets: Ballads, Plays, and the Performance of Remediation. In P. Fumerton (Ed.), Ballads and Performance: The Multimodal Stage in Early Modern England EMC Imprint. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/ballads-and-performance-the-multi-modal-stage-in-early-modern-england/index
Newcomb, L. H. (2018). Toward a Sustainable Source Study. In D. A. Britton, & M. Walter (Eds.), Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (pp. 19-45). (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315649061-3
Newcomb, L. H. (2016). A Looking Glass for Readers: Cheap Print and the Senses of Repentance. In Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer (pp. 133-156). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546162-8