Thomas Deane Tucker is a Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College where he has been on the faculty since 1998.
His research and teaching interests are in philosophical aesthetics, philosophy of film, and modernism. He recently completed work on a book that explores the intersections between the art and writings of the artist Marcel Duchamp and the philosopher Jacques Derrida’s method of deconstruction. The book is titled Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction, and will be published in 2008 by Lexington Books. He has also edited a volume of essays on the theme of death in deconstruction titled All that Remains: Death and Deconstruction, A Reader.
At various times in his life before teaching at CSC, he has lived in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Orlando, and New York City, and has worked as a waiter, an audio guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, film production assistant, photo stylist, documentary film researcher, surfing instructor, and book editor.
He shares his life with his wife Rana and what sometimes seems like a veritable zoo–three dogs, two cats, two horses, and a school of fish. Since moving to Nebraska, he continues to yearn for the sea.
