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Christopher Lukasik
Assistant Professor, Department of English; Director of Undergraduate Studies, American Studies
| Education: | Ph.D., English, Johns Hopkins University, 2002 |
| Office: | HEAV 410 |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-43324 |
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| Specializations: | American literature and art history before 1900; Early American Studies; visual culture and theory; class and gender studies; history and theory of the novel; literature and science; literature and history; American literary history and criticism |
Christopher Lukasik joined Purdue University in the Fall of 2005. Prior to his appointment at Purdue, he was an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University, where he also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies. He earned his B.A. in English and B.F.A. in Painting at the University of Illinois and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University. His book entitled, Discerning Characters: Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1775-1850 is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Selected Publications: "Intermediality and The Social Space of Immobility in Rebecca" in Beyond Charlotte Temple. Ed. Desiree Henderson and Jennifer Desiderio. Intro. Carla Mulford. Univ. of Tennessee P, forthcoming; Looking at the Over-Exposed: Visuality and Race in William Harnett's Attention Company!," Callaloo, forthcoming; “‘The Vanity of Physiognomy': Dissimulation and Discernment in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond,” Amerikastudien/American Studies (2005); “The Face of The Public,” Early American Literature (2004); “Breeding and Reading: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic,” in Blackwell’s A Companion To American Fiction, 1780-1865 (2004); “The Physiognomy of Biometrics,” Common-place (2004); “Feeling the Force of Certainty: The Divine Science, Newtonianism, and Jonathan Edwards' ‘Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God,'” New England Quarterly (2000).
Honors, Grants, and Awards: Fulbright Scholar Grant to the University of the Philippines (2009-2010); Purdue Research Faculty Grant (2006); NEH Long-Term Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society (2004-05); Boston University Humanities Foundation Junior Fellowship (2004); Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society (2004); Drawn to Art Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society (2003); Winterthur Library Research Fellowship (2001); Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia (2000).
Teaching Awards: Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of English (2008, 2007, 2006); Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, Purdue University (2008, 2007); Honoree, Class of 2004 Legacy Gift, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University (2004); Honoree, Class of 2004 Legacy Gift, School of Education, Boston University (2004).