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Richard Nash
Richard Nash (Email; phone 812-855-2930)
Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1986
I am interested in British Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, with a special interest in Literature and Science, concentrating on the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century. My last
(Yahoo) book was on the figure of the Wild Man in Eighteenth-Century England; my current (Houyhnhnm) project focuses on the origins of the thoroughbred racehorse and what it means to invent an animal. Both projects allow me to explore Nature/Culture hybridity and the origins of Modernity. Emerging from this recent project has been both an increasing interest in the mediating work of Early Modern Georgic in the context of AgriCultural Studies, and the ways in which Karen Barad's agential realism may offer theoretical tools for re-situating a "non-Modern" historical reconsideration of modernity.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
18c British Literature and Culture; Literature and Science; Animality and Animal Studies; Early 18c Satire and Fiction
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Books (click on images for ordering information):
Thoroughbred: Cultural Metaphor and the Invention of an Animal (in progress).
Configurations (co-editor with Ron Broglio, Journal Special Issue): "Animality and Animal Studies" (forthcoming).
Wild Enlightenment: The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 2003. (Winner, Walker Cowen Prize, University Press of Virginia)
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Book Review - Journal of British Studies
Book Review - Eighteenth Century Studies
John Craige's "Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology." Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Book Review - JSTOR
Articles and Essays (Recent and Forthcoming):
"Stud: The Book that Wrote an Animal," The Book: Proceedings of the Twentieth DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth Century Studies (forthcoming).
“Nomenclature and the Other Animal,” Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics, ed. Frank Palmeri (Ashgate, 2006).
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“‘Honest English Breed:’ The Thoroughbred as Cultural Metaphor,” The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World, ed. Karen Raber and Treva Tucker (Palgrave, 2004): 245-72.
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“Did Swift Write It cannot Rain, but it Pours?” Swift Studies, 17 (2002): 44-58.
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"Sorrels, Bays, and Dapple Greys," Swift Studies, 15 (2000): 110-15.
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"Immaculate Mothers and Celibate Fathers: Where are we Going and Where have we Been?" Playing Dolly: Technological Formations, Fantasies and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Squier (Rutgers UP, 1999): 220-31.
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"Gorilla Rhetoric: Family Values in the Mountains," Symploke 4:1-2 (1996): 95-133.
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SELECT HONORS AND AWARDS
British Academy Fellowship, York University (2005)
Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library (2005)
Walker Cowen Book Prize, University Press of Virginia (2003)
About me:
Locally, I am a former Director of Graduate Studies in my department (2003-05), a founding member of the Science and Literature Affinity Group, and currently a member of the Center for Eighteenth Century Studies at Indiana University. Globally, I am a Past President of the Johnson Society of the Central Region (one of the founding Affiliate Societies of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies), and currently serve as Second Vice-President of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (companion site maintained at Johns Hopkins), the sponsoring organization of the journal, Configurations: I am also an active member of pedigree research group responsible for the website www.bloodlines.net; and I am available as a bloodstock consultant.
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