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 literary and cultural studies, performance studies, media studies, and religion. She is currently at work on two book projects. The first, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature, examines the entanglements of race, reenactment, and ecstatic temporality in turn-of-the-century American realism. The second, Experimental Gestures, explores how minimal or routine gestures—touching a button, saluting a flag, going through the motions—become crucial sites of ethical inquiry in times of attenuated political possibility. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, American Religious Liberalism (ed. Schmidt and Promey), the Los Angeles Review of Books, Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, The Pocket Instructor: Literature, and Keywords for American Cultural Studies.
Archiving Ecstatic Performance