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Roger Luckhurst

ロジャー・ラックハースト

Rōjā Rakkahāsuto

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Writer, Academic
Active Years
1997-2025
Affiliations
Birkbeck, University of London, Columbia University

Education

University of Hull
Country: United Kingdom
University of Sussex
Country: United Kingdom

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Trauma Question

2008 Literary Criticism

Book on trauma studies

Trauma

The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy

2012 Cultural History

Cultural history of mummy curses

MummiesCurses

Zombies: A Cultural History

2015 Cultural History

Cultural history of zombies

Zombies

Bibliography

  • The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J. G. Ballard
  • The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901
  • Science Fiction
  • The Trauma Question
  • The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy
  • Zombies: A Cultural History
  • Corridors
  • Gothic: An Illustrated History
  • Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Academic criticismSpecialist in Gothic and SF
Recurring Motifs
GothicHorrorScience FictionTrauma

Legacy

British academic noted for work on Victorian literature, Gothic and weird fiction, trauma studies, and science fiction. Editor of Oxford World's Classics volumes and author of books on mummies and zombies.