Office Hours: Mondays, 12:30-1:30 pm in person (MU 119) or on Zoom by appointment (email for appointment)
Primary Areas of Specialization: Queer studies; affect theory; 19th-century American literature; environmental humanities; photography, film, and media studies.
Field of Interest: Early American, Environmental Humanities, Film, Gender & Sexuality, Nineteenth-Century American, Theory
Biographical Notes:
Dana Luciano is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2018. Previously, she taught at Georgetown University, where she co-directed the Mellon Sawyer seminar, “Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change” (2016-2018). She is the author of How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth Century U.S. (Duke University Press, 2024) and Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in the Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (NYU, 2007). Other publications include Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (NYU Press, 2014), co-edited with Ivy G. Wilson; "Queer Inhumanisms," a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, co-edited with Mel Y. Chen (spring/summer 2015); and recent essays in American Quarterly, American Literature, Post45, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, a new multimedia, open-access environmental humanities journal.
