Roger Luckhurst

Distinguished Professor Roger Luckhurst
Education	Hull University, University of Sussex
Occupation	Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Distinguished Visiting Professor
Employer	Birkbeck, University of London, Columbia University
Known for	Editorship of Oxford World’s Classics series, trauma studies, science fiction
Notable work	The Trauma Question The Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy Zombies: A Cultural History

The Trauma Question

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

Roger Luckhurst is a British academic and writer. He is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He works on Victorian literature, contemporary literature, trauma studies, and speculative/science fiction. Luckhurst is notable for his role as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia, for his introductions and editorships to the Oxford World’s Classics series volumes -- Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Dracula, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Portrait of a Lady, H.P. Lovecraft's Classic Horror Tales, King Solomon’s Mines, and The Time Machine -- and for his books, The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008), The Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Zombies: A Cultural History (Reaktion Press, 2015).

Luckhurst is also notable for his extensive media presence. He has written pieces for The Guardian, and has been interviewed on national radio (the BBC) about his work.

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