Jessica Luck (email; phone 812-855-2034)
Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D. Indiana University, 2006
M.A. Wake Forest University, 1999
M.S. University of Tennessee, 1997
B.A. University of Tennessee, 1996

Research Interests
20th century American Literature, lyric and experimental poetry, cognitive approaches to literature, literature and science, postmodernism, critical theory.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Articles:
“Exploring ‘the mind of the hive’: Embodied Cognition in Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems.” Forthcoming from Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.

“Ecce Homo: Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Autobiography.” InterCulture 3 (2006).

Special Issue on Nietzsche and Interdisciplinarity.

“Lucy Larcom’s ‘Poetic Dwelling’ in A New England Girlhood.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.2 (2001): 48-58. 

“Bruce Sterling’s Holy Fire and the Posthuman Sublime.” Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Studies 9.2 (2000): 29-54.

Recent Presentations:
“Writing in Code: The Embodied Autopoietics of Ammons’s Long Poems.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Portland, Maine. November 2007.

“Experimental Poetry and Cognition” panel organizer. “‘Are your fingers in the margin’: My Life and Memory as Collaboration.” 20 th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. February 2007.

“‘The poem is a mind’: Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and the Poetics of the Modular Mind.” Literature and the Cognitive Sciences. University of Connecticut, Storrs. April 2006.

“Sleeping With the Dictionary: Harryette Mullen’s Embodied Poetics.” 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. February 2006.

“Exploring the ‘mind of the hive’: Embodied Cognition in Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Chicago. November 2005.

“Saliences, Scaffolding, and the Push of Poetry on the Brain.” 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. February 2005.