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FacultyLindsay Reckson

Lindsay Reckson
Lindsay Reckson
Associate Professor of English
VCAM 2nd Floor
(610)896-1000
lreckson@haverford.edu

Biography

Before coming to Haverford, Lindsay 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 in 2011, and her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from New York University in 2004.

Research

Lindsay Reckson teaches and writes at the intersection of American and African-American literary studies, performance studies, media studies, and religion. Her first book, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature, is forthcoming in January 2020 from NYU Press. 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 new book project, Experimental Gestures, explores how minimal or routine gestures become crucial sites of ethical inquiry in times of attenuated political possibility. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, 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. 

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  • Realist Ecstasy
  • "Touching a Button"
  • "Archiving Ecstatic Performance"
  • "Hands Up"
  • Cool Classes: Realism, Race, and Photography
  • Cool Classes: Against Death

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