Looby, Christopher

loobyChristopher

Looby, Christopher
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Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989 M.A., Washington University, 1981 B.A., Washington University, 1979

Interests

United States literature, 18th-19th centuries; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Richard Wright; historical and cultural approaches to literature; print culture.

Selected Works

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.
"'As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire':Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment." In
Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Ed. Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 71-115.
"'The Roots of the Orchis, the Iuli of Chestnuts': The Odor of Male
Solitude." In Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary, and Artistic
Discourses of Autoeroticism. Ed. Paula Bennett and Vernon A. Rosario II.
New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 163-87.
"'Innocent Homosexuality': The Fiedler Thesis in Retrospect." In
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Conroversy.
Ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan. Boston: Bedford Books, 1995. Pp.
535-50.
"Flowers of Manhood: Race, Sex and Floriculture from Thomas Wentworth
Higginson to Robert Mapplethorpe." Criticism 37, 1 (Winter 1995), pp.
109-56.
"George Thompson's 'Romance of the Real': Transgression and Taboo in
American Sensation Fiction." American Literature 65, 4 (Dec, 1993), pp.
651-72.
"The Constitution of Nature: Taxonomy as Politics in Jefferson, Peale, and
Bartram." Early American Literature 22, 3 (1987), pp. 252-73.
"Phonetics and Politics: Franklin's Alphabet as a Political Design."
Eighteenth-Century Studies 18, 1 (Fall 1984), pp. 1-34.