Remembering Josh Lukin -- Pop Culture Scholar, Disability Studies Advocate, Punster, Mensch

Josh Lukin was a polymath: smart, kind, musical, punster, every day, high academic. Every time I encountered him, he radiated assurance that this was the start of something wonderful.

There are hundreds of tributes on (his wife) Ann Keefer's Facebook feed.

https://www.facebook.com/746109651/posts/10156931539849652

I regret the adventures we'll never have. I was thrice drawn into Josh's orbit: at several WisCons, at the 2013 Disclosing Disability conference, and at the 2014 Society for Disability Studies conference. I admired his masterfully terrible puns on FB, and his prose in many places.

He studied and wrote about mysteries, science fiction, and life with chronic pain. He was an Associate Professor in English at Temple University, and it's no surprise that his students loved him.

A handful of full-text articles appear on his blog. For each he generously shares the path to publication, because:

I provide some background on how each of these got published in order a) to give credit to everyone responsible and b) to give novice scholars a sense of how the process worked. I owe almost all of my appearances in print to the support and generosity of grad school mentors and/or of editors I met at conferences.

https://joshlukinwork.wordpress.com/about/