Emma L. E. Rees

This article is about the British academic. For the Emma Rees case, see Nathaniel Currie .

Emma L. E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chester.[1]

Career

Dr. Emma L. E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, focusing on the early modern period, and on literature and film. Rees has written extensively on gender studies and representation, contributing chapters to a number of acclaimed academic works, including: The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011),[2] 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and Philosophy (2011),[3] Studying English Literature (2009),[4] and Led Zeppelin and Philosophy (2009).[5] Rees is author of the entry on 'Sexual Politics' for The Encyclopaedia of Sex and Society (2010).[6]

Rees' latest work is The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, published by Bloomsbury (August 2013).[7] Reviewing the book in British daily newspaper The Independent, Kaite Welsh began by saying, "For readers disappointed by Naomi Wolf's treatise on a similar topic last year, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. If Wolf's book was billed as Vagina: A New Biography, this could be subtitled A New Bibliography. An enjoyable romp through depictions of female genitalia from oral history to adverts, Rees examines the changing role of the cultural vagina." Welsh found that, "Although Rees is an academic by trade, the book gleefully mixes highbrow and lowbrow, from Chaucer to 21st-century horror", adding that, "If the book has a flaw, it is that it's mis-titled in the same way that Eve Ensler's Monologues were. This is a book more about the vulva itself than simply the vagina – labia and clitoris get their fair share of attention – but Rees acknowledges the sensationalist desire to talk simply about the part that gets penetrated and the way this obscures women's sexual desire. Would The Vulva Monologues have garnered quite that much attention?" She concluded her review by writing, "Rees lacks Wolf's sometimes po-faced anger, instead mixing her feminist outrage with a healthy dose of humour. Ever the cunning linguist, she leaves no pun unmade, but doesn’t skimp on the theory either, the perfect antidote for those feminists who find too much of the terminology dry and academic. This may not be the definitive text on the vagina – Rees is clear that she can't overturn centuries of embarrassment and taboo in a single book – but it's an excellent place to start."[8]

Emma Rees is on the editorial board for the Gender Forum Journal, part of The Journal of Feminist Studies, and is also on the board for the Australian interdisciplinary gender, sexuality, and diversity studies journal, Writing From Below. Rees is a reviewer for English, the Journal of the English Association; for Psychology and Sexuality; for the GEA Journal (Gender and Education Association); for Women's Studies Quarterly and for Thirdspace: a Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture and has contributed pieces for Times Higher Education.[9][10]

She is an individual affiliate of the Gender and Education Association (GEA), and affiliated to the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS).

Research and teaching interests

Emma Rees specialises in Renaissance literature, and in representations of mental illness in literature and on film. Her research and teaching interests also include Shakespeare studies; early modern literature and culture; film theory (especially screen adaptations of literary texts), and gender studies.[1]

Published work

Books

Book chapters

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).

Journal articles

Editorships

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Emma Rees | University of Chester". Chester.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  2. "The Female Body in Medicine and Literature, Mangham, Depledge". Press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  3. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire by Eric Bronson – Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  4. "Studying English Literature". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  5. "Led Zep Phil". Scribd.com. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  6. Sex and Society – Google Books. Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  7. "The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  8. Welsh, Kaite (24 August 2013). "Book review: The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, By Emma Rees". The Independent (London). Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  9. Rees, Emma (24 December 2015). "‘Tis the season to be jolly". Times Higher Education (London).
  10. Rees, Emma (2 November 2015). "Vulvanomics: how we talk about vaginas". Times Higher Education (London). Retrieved 31 December 2015.

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