
Dr. Lucas Hardy
Associate Professor
English & World Languages
DeBartolo Hall 240
phone: (330) 941-3420
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Education
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2012
Ph D, English
University at Albany, SUNY
Dissertation/Thesis Title — "Theologies of Pain in American Puritanism: The Human Body and Spiritual Conversion from Anne Bradstreet to Jonathan Edwards"
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2005
MA, English
University of Maine
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2003
BA, English
University of Maine
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Awards and Honors
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2019
Society of Early Americanists
Society of Early Americanists Scholar of the Month
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Intellectual Contributions
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2024
"Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted forms in Puritan New England"
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Bloomsbury Academic -
2023
"Review of A Cotton Mather Reader, by Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema"
L. Hardy
American Literary History, Oxford University Press, volume 35, issue 3, p. 3
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2019
"Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetics of Pain"
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, volume Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience & Thought -
2015
"The Practice of Conveying and Suffering the Small-pox’: Inoculation as a Means of Spiritual Conversion in Cotton Mather’s Angel of Bethesda"
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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, volume 44, p. 61-80
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2014
"No Cure: Anne Bradstreet’s Frenzied Brain"
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Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Taylor & Francis, volume 43, issue 3, p. 318-331
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