Christopher Looby
{{Short description|American literary critic}}
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Christopher Looby is an American literary critic specializing in 18th and 19th century American literature. He is a Professor of English at UCLA.{{cite news
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Background
Looby received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Select publications
- "Introduction." Sheppard Lee: Written By Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008. xv-xliii.[http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590172292 Sheppard Lee: Written By Himself]
- 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.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720065802/http://www.english.ucla.edu/index.php/Faculty/looby-christopher Official website] - UCLA
- [http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/12995 Christopher Looby in the New York Review of Books]
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Category:American literary critics
Category:Literary critics of English
Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Washington University in St. Louis alumni
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