"'Bringing the Eyes to Help the Imagination': Intermediality, Illustration, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
Christopher J. Lukasik is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University where he has also served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the American Studies program and as a Faculty Fellow in the College of Technology. He earned his B.A. in English and B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Illinois and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University. His research has received fifteen fellowships,including long-term awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the Boston University Humanities Foundation, the Purdue Research Foundation, and the Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture at the University of Virginia.
He has presented over sixty papers on three continents and his work has been published in over a dozen journals. He is the author of Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and is currently working on a new book project entitled The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
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“‘Bringing the Eyes to Help the Imagination’: Intermediality, Illustration, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
Christopher J. Lukasik
Associate Professor, English and American Studies, Purdue University
July 1 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
SR 34.D2, Attemsgasse 25/3rd fl oor, 8010 Graz
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Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Institut für Amerikanistik
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