Graduate Office
Graduate Office
- Dana Luciano
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Unit: Graduate Office
- At Rutgers Since: 2018
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office: Murray Hall, Room 119 College Ave Campus
- Office Hours:
Tuesdays 2-4 pm in person (MU 119) or online by 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
- About:
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 Nineteenth Century America (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.
- Membership Affiliations:
- Sarah Elliott Novacich
- Associate Director of Graduate Studies
- Associate Professor of English
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office: Murray Hall, Room 017, College Ave Campus
- Office Hours:
By appointment
- Primary Areas of Specialization: Medieval poetry and poetics, gender studies, drama and performance
- Field of Interest: Drama & Performance Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Medieval, Poetry & Poetics
- About:
Professor Novacich specializes in medieval literature. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, drama and performance cultures, gender studies, archival theory, visual culture, fiction, and travel literature. She has essays on these subjects in an array of journals, including Exemplaria, New Medieval Literatures, JEGP, postmedieval, and Philological Quarterly. Her first book, Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England: History, Poetry, and Performance (Cambridge UP) examines how episodes of sacred history – in particular, the loss of Eden, the flood, and the Harrowing of Hell – illuminate the risks and pleasures of archival process. Her current research examines the cultural uses of rhyme in Middle English poetry. She is the Director of the Program in Global Medieval Studies at Rutgers.
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
- Medieval Drama
- Chaucer
- Medieval Romance
- Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers
- Medieval Travel Narrative
- Graduate Courses Taught:
Medieval Drama and Performance
Chaucer
Medievalisms
Romance
- Education: Ph.D., Yale UniversityBA, Brandeis University