Dana Luciano

A sepia-toned photograph from the 1870s, in which man sits at a table reading a letter, while a ghostly figure floats above him holding a placard.

This little essay on spirit photography and commodity secularism ("The Ghost and the Gimmick") was a lot of fun to write; I hope some of you will find it fun to read. And even if not, I'd love to know what you think. Gift link: read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

Chasing the clouds away. youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

Communicating Climate: A Conversation with Naomi Oreskes, Lacy M. Johnson, Dominic Boyer, and Cymene Howe.

Remember those glorious days after January 6th when the MSM was briefly unafraid to call him on his bullshit? And then they scuttled right back up his butt when it became clear he wasn't going to jail.

Yes, to hold a press conference at a US military base. He was too afraid to go anywhere else. They're talking tough, though. Russia envy. I wonder what will happen.

And yes, the MSM makes me sick, just printing his bullshit like it's a press release. This article should include three legal experts explaining why there are NO legal methods other than violent overthrow, and a couple of Dems condemning Ogles for wasting Congress's time with unconstitutional BS.

I don't think he's joking but I do think he's trolling, trying to snatch back headlines to distract from their many fuckups this week.

Statement on the Limitation of NEH Awards by the Trump Administration Statement on the Limitation of NEH Awards by the Trump Administration In its February 11, 2025 update, the website of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced its compliance …

Our statement on the tyrannical limitations on NEH funding by the current administration. Please share!
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Protect Trans Kids On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

NYC Protect Trans Kids rally tomorrow, Monday 2/3 6:30 PM

St. Vartan Park• 1st Avenue &, E 35th St, New York, NY 10016 US

Protesting NYU Langone denying healthcare to a trans kid in response to Trump’s executive order

actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

Honestly, I'm flummoxed.

The books are on sale again! My book and all other Duke books are 40% off until December 13 with code FALL24.

TY to the 18 senators who voted for Sanders's first resolution!

Durbin
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
King
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Ossoff
Sanders
Schatz
Shaheen
Smith
Van Hollen
Warnock
Warren
Welch

Please add me and the journal I edit, Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture (@regenerationeac.bsky.social). Thanks!

USCPR action page: act.uscpr.org/a/block-weap...

The Biden administration announced last Tuesday that they were totally fine with Israel's ongoing violation of basic humanitarian conditions in Gaza, and plan to continue feeding the genocide machine. Call your congresspeople and tell them to support the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval!

You meet the strangest people here.

I'm sorry to hear that Jack is ailing! I hope he recovers soon.

Oof. Well, all our lame-duck president did was host a bipartisan morning-after panel at the tiresome Eagleton Institute celebrating how great it is that we still have peaceful elections.

That's interesting, in light of the emergency interfaith prayer service they held the day after the 2016 election--which spoke volumes, albeit indirectly (sort of like Jesuit queerness). Nothing like that this time?

CFP: Generations and Generational Time in the United States During the Long Nineteenth Century"
Université de Lille (France), June 12-13, 2025

Keynote speakers: Brigitte Fielder; Dana Luciano (@danaluci.bsky.social)

Proposal submissions by November 30. CFP below

@c19americanists.bsky.social

It's here! "Nature Bites Back: The Anti-Pastoral Thesis in Queer and Trans Studies," the very first (double) issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, guest edited by Cameron Clark and E.L. McCallum, with an AMAZING list of contributors.

www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1268/i...

The first issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture will be published online in August 2024. It will be a special double issue guest edited by Cameron Clark and E.L. McCallum, titled "Nature Bites Back: The Anti-Pastoral Thesis in Queer and Trans Studies." www.regeneration-journal.org

I'm doing an online book talk for the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities on Monday April 22 at 10 am EDT. Zoom link: stavanger.zoom.us/j/6920048737...
Link to event page:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

A great month of activities planned for after the Easter break at The Greenhouse! More research talks, more fantastic authors presenting their monographs, roundtable discussions and an extraordinary lunch...

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Joint Statement by the American Association of University Professors, Barnard and Columbia Chapters April 19, 2024 The American Association of University Professors has defined two central pillars of higher education in America: academic freedom and shared governance: the freedom to teach and do research without interference from entities external to the profession; and the "inescapable interdependence among governing board, administration, faculty, students." In the last three days, Columbia University President Shafik and her administration have seriously violated both. We are shocked at her failure to mount any defense of the free inquiry central to the educational mission of a university in a democratic society and at her willingness to appease legislators seeking to interfere in university affairs. She has demonstrated flagrant disregard of shared governance in her acceptance of partisan charges that anti-war demonstrators are violent and antisemitic and in her unilateral and wild

A stunning statement from the American Association of University Professors, Barnard and Columbia Chapters.

“We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to fight to reclaim our university.”

drive.google.com/file/d/1rciM...

I'm thrilled to be getting together with Mel Chen for a conversation in the Intellectual Publics series next week! Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 PM ET. Register at gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....

Duke UP has asked me to let you know that all their in-stock and pre-order titles, including mine, are 50% off through December 8 with the code CYBER23. But you can also read my intro for free at the Duke UP website--link below.

Cover of How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano. Cover is a landscape painting. An individual and an alpaca walk in the foreground of the painting underneath tall, green trees. A river runs through the landscape before flowing into a waterfall over a rugged cliff. Black smoke plumes into a large, orange-hued cloud as a volcano erupts in the background.

"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln

“Of course, the world continues to end”: Weather and the Climate Crisis Ordinary - Post45 The sense of slow-motion apocalypse indexed in my title, spoken by a character in Jenny Offill’s 2020 novel Weather, resonates widely. In early 2020 — just a few weeks before the novel coronavirus...

Post45 Stuckness cluster: post45.org/sections/con...

My piece, on climate depression and the stories it (under)tells: post45.org/2023/09/of-c...