Thomas Loebel
Associate Professor
Department of English

Thomas Loebel is an Associate Professor and former Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English at York University.

Author of The Letter and the Spirit: Justice, Politics, Theology (2005), he is a specialist in 19^th and 20^th century American literature and literary theory.

His current research involves a multidisciplinary approach to language as a performance art, moving from a linguistic understanding of transformational-generative grammar and performative utterance to type treatment, orthographics and dialectology. Focusing on late 19th-century and early-modernist American cultural production, the work explores prose rhythmics, temporal measures of speech, and the sound-shape of expression.