Christopher Raczkowski

Christopher Raczkowski is an Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of South Alabama, specializing in post-Civil War American literature with a focus on modernism and crime fiction. His research explores the intersections of genre theory, canonical literary traditions, and interdisciplinary methodologies.

• Fields of Interest: Modernist aesthetics, crime fiction, detective narrative, post-Civil War American literature, media adaptations, and literary theory.
• Key Publications: His 2017 monograph A History of American Crime Fiction situates crime fiction within broader literary history, spanning from 17th-century execution sermons to contemporary podcasts like Serial. Other works examine noir aesthetics in film, Harlem Renaissance discourses, and the evolution of narrative vision in detective fiction.

Raczkowski's scholarship frequently engages with interdisciplinary frameworks, connecting literary analysis to cultural studies, critical theory, and historical debates. His publications have appeared in journals such as LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory and Modern Fiction Studies.