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Christopher Loar Assistant Professor of English

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
B.A., University of Chicago, 1991


Christopher Loar joined the UC Davis English faculty in 2007. He studies eighteenth-century British literature, with particular interests in the place of violence and wonder in early modern political theory; the literature of war; the history of the early British novel; transatlantic print culture; cultures of the British empire; gender and masculinity studies; and autobiography and life-writing.

Selected Publications

• "How to Say Things with Guns: Military Technology and the Politics of Robinson Crusoe." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 19.1&2 (Fall 2006): 1-20
• "Nostalgic Correspondence and James Boswell's Scottish Malady." Studies in English Literature 44.3 (Summer 2004): 595-615.

AwardsA

• Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006 (co-awarded).
• UCLA Chancellor's Fellowship, 2005-2006.
• Shirley Collier Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005.
• Dean's Pauley Fellowship, UCLA, 1999-2000 and 2003-2004.
• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, UCLA Department of English, 2002-2003.

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Email:cloar@ucdavis.edu