Christopher Schaberg
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 325 Bobet Hall
- Mailing Address
- Loyola University New Orleans
Department of English
6363 St. Charles Ave.
Campus Box 50
New Orleans, LA 70118 - Direct Phone
- (504) 865-3597
- Fax Number
- (504) 865-2294
- E-mail Address
- schaberg@loyno.edu
Areas of Expertise
20th-Century Through Contemporary U.S. literature, Critical Theory
Degrees
Ph.D., University of California Davis; M.A., Montana State University-Bozeman; B.A., Hillsdale College
Short Bio
Christopher Schaberg teaches courses on American literature, cultural studies, and environmental theory. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (Bloomsbury, 2012), and numerous essays on air travel and contemporary literature. He is currently completing a book called Deconstructing Brad Pitt, which is an interdisciplinary study of the actor and his celebrity personae (forthcoming from Bloomsbury, February 2014). Other projects in process include a book about northern Michigan, a collection of nonfiction narratives about flight gathered from the website Airplane Reading, and another book about airports. Dr. Schaberg writes about his teaching & research on his public blog What is Literature?, and can also be found on twitter under the handle @airplanereading.
Courses Taught
- Texts and Theory
- 20th-Century U.S. Fiction
- Apocalypticism in Contemporary Literature & Theory
- Interpretive Approaches
- Reading (w/) the Digital Human
- "Thinking Space" (A First-Year Seminar)
- Environmental Theory