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.

Awards

• 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.

Email:cloar@ucdavis.edu