Emily Lyons

I hold a PhD in English Literature from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies from Northern Arizona University. My dissertation focused on representations of human subjectivity in 19th-century British literature and culture. A large part of my graduate research dealt with how people in the 19th century made sense of what it meant to be human during a time when media environments and communication technologies were progressing and changing rapidly. 

As a career track lecturer in the iSchool, I teach ESOC 212: Social Media Strategies, ESOC 340: Multimedia and the Moving Image, and LIS 546: The History of Books after Gutenberg. I have previously taught at Pima Community College and Northern Arizona University. My human rights interests center on prison abolition and dismantling the carceral state. I teach from an abolitionist, anti-racist perspective and maintain that abolition is a higher education issue. Currently, I do volunteer work related to inmate advocacy and awareness raising with the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona.