Richard Nash (Email; phone 812-855-2930)
Professor
PhD: University of Virginia, 1986

RESEARCH INTERESTS
18c British Literature and Culture; Literature and Science; Animality and Animal Studies; Early 18c Satire and Fiction

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
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.
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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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SELECTED 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.