Dana Luciano
Biographic Data
| ID | 772270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Luciano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Luciano |
| SIGNATURE | LUCIANO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Ghost and the Gimmick: Spirit Photography and the Commodification of Secularism
This article considers how spirit photography operates in the context of secularism. It begins by tracking controversies around two nineteenth-century spirit photographers, William J. Mumler and Edouard Buguet, examining photographs and written texts made with the purpose of mocking and debunking Spiritualism. Intended to amuse, these works pointed the finger at the real frauds and their dupes; they sold their audiences both the pleasures of illu…
How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth's history ge…
Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
This essay explores the differing relations to land, time, and history—human and planetary—that organized responses to the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811–12 and that now characterize responses to the Anthropocene. Indigenous and settler accounts connected the earthquakes to a catastrophic rupture in time, but they located that catastrophe differently. For the US, the disaster was seismic, a geological revelation of human powerlessness. Federal in…
Belated Futures
Belated Futures Stephanie Foote, Anthony Lioi, and Dana Luciano Last year, the Resilience collective—Stephanie Foote, Anthony Lioi, and Dana Luciano—asked a range of environmental humanists to speculate about the state of the field for this double issue marking the tenth anniversary of the journal’s publication. In part, we imagined this as a call-back to the journal’s first issue. Resilience 1.1 was entirely dedicated to a suite of manifestos ab…
Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
"In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challe…
Queer Inhumanisms
Queer Inhumanisms" from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been th…
Romancing the Trace Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit inThe Soul of Things
This essay takes up the recent embrace of geology by contemporary postsecular critics in relation to a history of nonsecular uses of geology as a resource for what Michael Taussig terms the "unthought zones of materiality." It looks closely at one such manifestation: the nineteenth-century collaboration between the geologist and Spiritualist lecturer and writer William Denton and his wife, the psychometric medium Elizabeth Foote Denton, which pro…
Arranging grief: Sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America
Coming Around Again
Research Article| June 01 2007 COMING AROUND AGAIN: The Queer momentum of Far from Heaven Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 249–272. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Luciano; COMING AROUND AGAIN: The Queer momentum of Far from Heaven. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 249–2…
Love's Measures
Other| January 01 2007 Love's Measures Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (1): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-021 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dana Luciano; Love's Measures. GLQ 1 January 200…
Scouting for Queers
Book Review| April 01 2005 SCOUTING FOR QUEERS Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity Kathryn R. Kent Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xi + 355 pp. Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (2): 327–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-2-327 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share…
Melville's Untimely History: "Benito Cereno" as Counter-Monumental Narrative
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 60, Number 3, Autumn 2004
Perverse Nature: Edgar Huntly and the Novel's Reproductive Disorders
Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue
This book describes Charles Brockden Brown's novels in their Federalist-era context, exploring the dual roles of economics and gender that were changing in the 1790s alongside the growing U.S. market-capitalist economy. Hinds argues that Brown's works both recorded and contributed to this shifting ideology
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
Queer Inhumanisms
Queer Inhumanisms" from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been th…
Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit inThe Soul of Things
This essay takes up the recent embrace of geology by contemporary postsecular critics in relation to a history of nonsecular uses of geology as a resource for what Michael Taussig terms the "unthought zones of materiality." It looks closely at one such manifestation: the nineteenth-century collaboration between the geologist and Spiritualist lecturer and writer William Denton and his wife, the psychometric medium Elizabeth Foote Denton, which pro…
Coming Around Again
Research Article| June 01 2007 COMING AROUND AGAIN: The Queer momentum of Far from Heaven Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 249–272. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Luciano; COMING AROUND AGAIN: The Queer momentum of Far from Heaven. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 249–2…
Love's Measures
Other| January 01 2007 Love's Measures Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (1): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-021 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dana Luciano; Love's Measures. GLQ 1 January 200…
Perverse Nature: Edgar Huntly and the Novel's Reproductive Disorders
Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue
This book describes Charles Brockden Brown's novels in their Federalist-era context, exploring the dual roles of economics and gender that were changing in the 1790s alongside the growing U.S. market-capitalist economy. Hinds argues that Brown's works both recorded and contributed to this shifting ideology
Perverse Nature: Edgar Huntly and the Novel's Reproductive Disorders
Melville's Untimely History: "Benito Cereno" as Counter-Monumental Narrative
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 60, Number 3, Autumn 2004
Scouting for Queers
Book Review| April 01 2005 SCOUTING FOR QUEERS Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity Kathryn R. Kent Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xi + 355 pp. Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (2): 327–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-2-327 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share…
Coming Around Again
Research Article| June 01 2007 COMING AROUND AGAIN: The Queer momentum of Far from Heaven Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 249–272. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Luciano; COMING AROUND AGAIN: The Queer momentum of Far from Heaven. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 249–2…
Love's Measures
Other| January 01 2007 Love's Measures Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (1): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-021 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dana Luciano; Love's Measures. GLQ 1 January 200…
Arranging grief: Sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America
Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit inThe Soul of Things
This essay takes up the recent embrace of geology by contemporary postsecular critics in relation to a history of nonsecular uses of geology as a resource for what Michael Taussig terms the "unthought zones of materiality." It looks closely at one such manifestation: the nineteenth-century collaboration between the geologist and Spiritualist lecturer and writer William Denton and his wife, the psychometric medium Elizabeth Foote Denton, which pro…
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
Romancing the Trace Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology
Queer Inhumanisms
Queer Inhumanisms" from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been th…
Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
"In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challe…
Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
This essay explores the differing relations to land, time, and history—human and planetary—that organized responses to the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811–12 and that now characterize responses to the Anthropocene. Indigenous and settler accounts connected the earthquakes to a catastrophic rupture in time, but they located that catastrophe differently. For the US, the disaster was seismic, a geological revelation of human powerlessness. Federal in…
Belated Futures
Belated Futures Stephanie Foote, Anthony Lioi, and Dana Luciano Last year, the Resilience collective—Stephanie Foote, Anthony Lioi, and Dana Luciano—asked a range of environmental humanists to speculate about the state of the field for this double issue marking the tenth anniversary of the journal’s publication. In part, we imagined this as a call-back to the journal’s first issue. Resilience 1.1 was entirely dedicated to a suite of manifestos ab…
How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth's history ge…
The Ghost and the Gimmick: Spirit Photography and the Commodification of Secularism
This article considers how spirit photography operates in the context of secularism. It begins by tracking controversies around two nineteenth-century spirit photographers, William J. Mumler and Edouard Buguet, examining photographs and written texts made with the purpose of mocking and debunking Spiritualism. Intended to amuse, these works pointed the finger at the real frauds and their dupes; they sold their audiences both the pleasures of illu…
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