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Chad Luck

Chad Luck

Professor

Contact

Professor
English
Office Phone(909) 537-3855
Office LocationUH-301.43

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008 M.A., Indiana University, 2001 B.A., University of Washington, 1994

Courses/Teaching

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

American Gothic

Critical Theory

Contemporary Fiction

Writing and Analysis of Fiction

 Expository Writing.

Specialization

18th- and 19th-Century American Literature and Culture

Research and Teaching Interests

18th- and 19th-Century American Literature and Culture; Literature and Philosophy; Critical Theory; Phenomenology and Phenomenological Criticism; Law and Literature; Property Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

- The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession. Fordham UP, 2014.

Articles/Essays:

- “George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic.” A Companion to American Gothic, ed. Charles Crow. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

- “Re-Walking the Purchase: Edgar Huntly, David Hume, and the Origins of Ownership.” Early American Literature 44.2 (2009): 271-306.

- “The Epistemology of the Wonder-Closet: Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Marvelous.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 9.1 (2007): 3-23.

- “A Liberal Inheritance: Biology, Property, and the Limits of the Possessive Individual in Stoddard’s The Morgesons.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 40.1 (2007): 37-48.