Crystal B. Lake completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Missouri, specializing in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She joined Wright State in 2011 after completing three years as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Broadly speaking, Dr. Lake's research and teaching interests explore the relationships between literature and material cultures in England between 1660 and 1837. Her research has been recognized by awards from various research libraries, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. Dr. Lake's book, Artifacts: How We Think and Write About Found Objects, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2020, and she regularly authors peer-reviewed articles as well as more public-facing essays. Dr. Lake offers courses that introduce students to British literary history and culture--and regularly draws on critical making practices to help students develop innovative projects that connect literary studies to everyday experiences, multimedia forms, and interdisciplinary interests.