Christopher Looby

Updated on Nov 05, 2023

Edit

Comment

Occupation Professor Nationality United States		Name Christopher Looby

Books Voicing America, Benjamin Franklin Education Washington University in St. Louis, Columbia University

'Sheppard Lee': UCLA prof resurrects antebellum novel

Christopher Looby is an American literary critic specializing in 18th and 19th century American literature. He is a Professor of English at UCLA.

Looby received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989.

"Introduction." Sheppard Lee: Written By Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008. xv-xliii.

The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000.

Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

(Text) CC BY-SA