Lambert received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and immediately went to work researching and teaching at the American University of Kuwait, where he served as Writing Program Administrator and Chair of the English Department. He has published articles in SEL, Philological Quarterly, This Rough Magic, Studies in Philology, and some others, and he has received fellowships to study lyrical emotions of the Renaissance at Dartmouth College, the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Dr. Williams’s Library.