Bio
Luke Mueller teaches writing and literature courses, and he studies 20th-21st century American and British literature and the philosophy of language.
Publications
Journal Articles
Mueller, L. S. (2024). “Poverty in Mauve: Aesthetics and the Discourse of Resilience in The Florida Project” . Studies in Popular Culture. Spring 2024 Forthcoming.Mueller, L. S. (2024). "Race in Context: Ordinary Language and Nella Larsen’s Passing". Philosophy and Literature. Forthcoming.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.
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." In Garry Hagberg, (Eds.) Literature and Its Language: Philosophical Aspects. Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Reviews
Mueller, L. S. (2021). [Review of the book The Fictional Minds of Modernism: Narrative Cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood ]. Studies in the Novel, v. 53, no. 2, 2021. Baltimore, MD: Mueller, L. (2017). [Review of the book Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language, by Megan Quigley ]. Journal of Modern Literature, (vol. 40) no. 4
Presentations
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 theBentley Expository Writing Program Annual Workshop Bentley University Mueller, L. (2019). “Linguistic (Re)Turns” Presented at theAmerican 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 theAmerican Comparative Literature Association Conference Washington, D.C. Mueller, L. (2018). “At the Margins of Modernist Experience: Futurist Manifestos and Dewey’s Aesthetics” Presented at theNortheast Modern Language Association Pittsburgh, PA Mueller, L. (2017). “‘She Couldn’t Prove It:’ Crisis and Practical Certainty in Nella Larsen’s Passing” Presented at theAmerican Literature Association Conference Boston, MA Service
Department Service
Committee Chair for English and Media Studies Curriculum Committee 2022 - PresentAssistant to the Chair for English and Media Studies Dept. 2022 - PresentCoordinator for English and Media Studies Minor 2022 - PresentCommittee Member for Writing and Communication Committee 2021 - 2022Committee Member for Research and Pedagogy Committee 2019 - 2022Committee Member for Reader for First-Year EXP Placement Essays 2018 - 2022University Service
Committee Member for Academic Standards Committee 2022 - PresentCommittee Member for Academic Performance Committee 2022 - 2022