Chad Luck
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Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008 M.A., Indiana University, 2001 B.A., University of Washington, 1994
Courses/Teaching
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
American Gothic
Critical Theory
Contemporary Fiction
Writing and Analysis of Fiction
Expository Writing.
Specialization
18th- and 19th-Century American Literature and Culture
Research and Teaching Interests
18th- and 19th-Century American Literature and Culture; Literature and Philosophy; Critical Theory; Phenomenology and Phenomenological Criticism; Law and Literature; Property Theory
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
- The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession. Fordham UP, 2014.
Articles/Essays:
- “George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic.” A Companion to American Gothic, ed. Charles Crow. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
- “Re-Walking the Purchase: Edgar Huntly, David Hume, and the Origins of Ownership.” Early American Literature 44.2 (2009): 271-306.
- “The Epistemology of the Wonder-Closet: Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Marvelous.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 9.1 (2007): 3-23.
- “A Liberal Inheritance: Biology, Property, and the Limits of the Possessive Individual in Stoddard’s The Morgesons.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 40.1 (2007): 37-48.