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) and served as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program (2009-2012). Her most recent monograph, How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth Century U.S. was published by Duke University Press in January 2024.
Luciano’s first book Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth Century America won the MLA’s First Book Award in 2008. 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 essays in American Quarterly, American Literature, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, ASAP/J, Post45, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Capacious, GLQ, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, a new multimedia, open-access environmental humanities journal. She is currently at work on a monograph tentatively titled Time and Again: The Affective Circuits of Spirit Photography.