Rate My Professor Phillip Lobo

Lobo's research interests encompass English literature, the history of the English language novel, formal realism, critical literary theory, game studies, subjectivity studies, intermedia comparatist studies, new media studies, and gender and feminist studies. His peer-reviewed publications include “Novel Subjects: Robinson Crusoe & Minecraft and the Production of Sovereign Selfhood” in Game Studies (19:1, 2019), “Replaying History: The Statistical Realism of Alternate History Narratives and Games” in Neprikosnovennyy Zapas (138:3, 2021), “Between Homo and Ludens: The Dichotomy of Subjectivity in The Snail on the Slope” in Russian Literature (2022), “Survive Style 5+ and the Ethics of Creative Advertising” in Postmodern Culture (27:2, 2017), and “0. <an intervention into the critical discourse around Oryx & Crake>” in Chiasma: A Site for Thought (4:4, 2017). He also contributed the book chapter “Modeling Modernity” to Critical Insights: Joseph Conrad (Salem Press, 2016) and authored 38 articles for Open Letters Monthly. Lobo received a College Doctoral Fellowship (2009–2014) at USC and, in 2021, a Bell Grant from the Muncie Community Foundation with Meghan Riley to support collaborative instruction between speculative literature and world literature courses. He has presented at conferences including the International Society for the Study of Narrative (2016) and USC symposia, and holds affiliations with the Modern Language Association and American Comparative Literature Association. His work bridges literary and ludic elements, fostering new expressions of identity and subjectivity.