Christopher Loar
he/him, Associate Professor
About
His research and teaching interests include the literature of the long eighteenth century from both Britain and the Americas; critical theory; political philosophy; gender studies; imperialism; ecocriticism and environmental history; and eighteenth-century science writing. His essays have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Genders, Studies in English Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. His first book is entitled Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650-1750 (Fordham, 2014).
Research Interests
- Early Modern Britain
- Early/Antebellum American
- Eighteenth-Century British
- Nineteenth-Century American