Luke Mueller

Luke Mueller

  • Senior Lecturer, English and Media Studies
  • Assistant Department Chair
  • Ph.D. in English, Tufts University
  • M.A. in English, Tufts University
  • M.S.I.S. Drexel University
  • B.A. in English, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Interests

Expository Writing; Literature and Language Philosophy; American Literature; Modernism.

Research Interests

Literature and Language Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, Modernism, Aesthetics.

Bio

Luke Mueller teaches writing and literature courses, and he studies 20th-21st century American and British literature and the philosophy of language.

Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

Journal Articles

  • Mueller, L. S. (2025). "Race in Context: Ordinary Language and Nella Larsen’s Passing". Philosophy and Literature, (49) 2 265-284. (Link)
  • Mueller, L. S. (2024). “Poverty in Mauve: Aesthetics and the Discourse of Resilience in The Florida Project”. Studies in Popular Culture Spring 2024 94-118. (Link)
  • Mueller, L. (2016). “Contesting Individuality: Pryvetee and Self-Profession in The Canterbury Tales”. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, (v. 47) pp. 189-208. (Link)

    • Book Chapters

  • Mueller, L. S. (2022). "'Bunbury Could Not Live, That Is What I Mean:' Austin's Performative Speech and Truth in the Case of Oscar Wilde." Literature and Its Language: Philosophical Aspects. Palgrave Macmillan. (Link)

    • Presentations

  • Mueller, L. (2025). “Rules, Rights, and Promises: G.E.M. Anscombe and Damon Galgut’s The Promise” Presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association San Francisco, CA
  • Mueller, L. (2025). “Fiction, Time, and the Quantum World” Presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association San Francisco, CA
  • Mueller, L. S. (2023). “"Infrastructure and the Modernist Utopia from H.G. Wells to Tommy Orange"” Presented at the Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference Brooklyn, NY
  • Mueller, L. S. (2023). “"Street Smarts: On Modernist Know-How"” Presented at the Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference Brooklyn, NY
  • Mueller, L. S. (2023). “Poverty in Mauve: Images of Resilience in The Florida Project.” Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting Niagara Falls, NY
  • Mueller, L. S. (2020). “Moving Research Projects Online” Presented at the Bentley Expository Writing Program Annual Workshop Bentley University
  • Mueller, L. (2019). “Linguistic (Re)Turns” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference Washington, D.C.
  • Mueller, L. (2019). “Linguistic Pragmatics in the Post-Truth Era: Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Case of Oscar Wilde” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference Washington, D.C.
  • Mueller, L. (2018). “At the Margins of Modernist Experience: Futurist Manifestos and Dewey's Aesthetics” Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Pittsburgh, PA
  • Mueller, L. (2017). “"She Couldn't Prove It:" Crisis and Practical Certainty in Nella Larsen's Passing” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference Boston, MA

    • Reviews

  • Mueller, L. S. (2021). The Fictional Minds of Modernism: Narrative Cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood.
  • Mueller, L. (2017). Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language, by Megan Quigley. , (vol. 40) no. 4 190-95.

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Committee Chair for English and Media Studies Curriculum Committee 2022-07-01 - Present
  • Assistant to the Chair for English and Media Studies Dept. 2022-07-01 - Present
  • Coordinator for English and Media Studies Minor 2022-07-01 - Present
  • Committee Member for Writing and Communication Committee 2021-09-01 - 2022-12-31
  • Committee Member for Research and Pedagogy Committee 2019-01-01 - 2022-12-31
  • Committee Member for Reader for First-Year EXP Placement Essays 2018-01-01 - Present

    • Service: University

  • Committee Member for Academic Standards Committee 2022-09-01 - 2025-05-31
  • Committee Member for Academic Performance Committee 2022-01-01 - 2022-05-31