Draft:Deborah Lutz

Deborah Lutz (born 1970) is an American academic and writer. She is currently the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair at the University of Louisville. Her scholarship focuses on Victorian literature, material culture, the history of sexuality, gender and LGBTQ+ studies, and the history of the book. Lutz has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation at the Huntington Library, and the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is also a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Early life and education

Lutz was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1970. She received her BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Career

Lutz is the author of five books. The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (Norton, 2015) was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography and has been translated into Spanish and Japanese. She is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions—Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Publications

Books

-----. Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials. Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780198858799 OCLC 1346368125

-----. Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781139924887 OCLC 898770399

-----. The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects. W.W. Norton, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-393-35270-2 OCLC 891611162

-----. Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism. W. W. Norton, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-393-06832-0 OCLC 601106342

-----. The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative. Ohio State University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8142-5286-4 OCLC 63187398