Research and teaching in both American Literature and American Studies encourages Professor Lohn to create innovative curricula that encourages creative intellectual responses from students. Her research concentration in the often-murky relationship between “high” and “low” culture and her emphasis on literary production as a cultural phenomenon allow her to provide interdisciplinary experience for her students. An advocate of a “hands-on” approach, Professor Lohn has led experiential learning adventures in New York City to study 19 th century immigration and tenement housing.

Education:
1972     A.B. Stanford University
1974     M.S. University of Southern California
1984     M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
1990     Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Select Publications:
Lohn, L.M. “Lesbian Detective Agency: Toward and Epistemology
of Empathy in the Novels of Katherine Forrest.” Presented at the Mid
Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference, November, 2004.

Lohn, L.M. “Hard Boiled or Over Easy, Viewing the Body.”
Presented at the New York College English Association Conference, April 2003.

Lohn, L.M. “Just Straight Boys in Drag? Querying Queerness in the Lesbian Detective Novel.” Presented at the Wells College Faculty Club, March, 2001.

Lohn, L.M. “Camera Eyes and Sebaceous Glands: Two Narratives in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun.” Presented at the invitation of the English Department of the University of California, Los Angeles.


Courses Taught:
Introduction to American Studies
American Literature Survey
American Minority Literatures
The American Novel
The Modern Novel
Film Studies
Popular Literature
The Mystery Novel
American Justice in Literature and Film
Special Topics in Literature
Gender Issues in the British and American Novel
The Decade

Last Updated: 09/26/2007