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FacultyLindsay Reckson

Lindsay Reckson
she/her
Professor and Chair of English
370 Lancaster Ave
(610) 896-1000
lreckson [at] haverford.edu

Biography

Lindsay Reckson teaches and writes about post-Reconstruction literature and visual culture, contemporary video and performance art, and prison abolition. Before coming to Haverford, Reckson was a Presidential Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from New York University.

Research

Reckson is the author of Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press 2020), and the editor of American Literature in Transition: 1876-1910 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). A study of the affective life of Jim Crow secularism, Realist Ecstasy demonstrates how the realist imagining of possessed bodies helped construct and naturalize racial difference while excavating the complex, shifting, and dynamic possibilities embedded in ecstatic performance. Her current book project, Notes on Gesture, is a series of essays exploring how minimal or routine gestures become sites of ethical inquiry in times of attenuated political possibility. She has co-curated two exhibits, The Legacy of Lynching (2018) and Currently (2023), at Haverford's Cantor-Fitzgerald Gallery. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, ASAP/J, Arizona Quarterly, American Religious Liberalism (ed. Schmidt and Promey), the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, The Pocket Instructor: Literature, and Keywords for American Cultural Studies. She received a 2016-2017 ACLS Fellowship for Realist Ecstasy, and was the winner of the 2020 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the Faculty and Curricular Innovation Director of The Graterford Archive. 

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  • Graterford Archive
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  • American Literature in Transition: 1876-1910
  • DLP Mirror: Aural Imaginaries
  • Currently 
  • On Similitude
  • The Legacy of Lynching
  • Touching a Button
  • Hands Up

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