Awards SFRA Pioneer Award | ||
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Occupation Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Distinguished Visiting Professor Notable work The Trauma QuestionThe Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark FantasyZombies: A Cultural History Nominations Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Books Zombies: A Cultural History, The Trauma Question, The Mummy's Curse: Th, Late Victorian Gothic Ta, The invention of telepathy Similar Laurel Brake, H P Lovecraft, William Campbell | ||
Roger Luckhurst is a British academic and writer. He is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He works on Victorian literature, contemporary literature, trauma studies, and speculative/science fiction. Luckhurst is notable for his role as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia, for his introductions and editorships to the Oxford World’s Classics series volumes -- Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Dracula, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Portrait of a Lady, H.P. Lovecraft's Classic Horror Tales, King Solomon’s Mines, and The Time Machine -- and for his books, The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008), The Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Zombies: A Cultural History (Reaktion Press, 2015).
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Luckhurst is also notable for his extensive media presence. He has written pieces for The Guardian, and has been interviewed on national radio (the BBC) about his work.