Chair, Associate Professor

Office

Humanities 242 E
Department of English
Loyola University Maryland
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210

Phone: 410-617-2340
Fax: 410-617-2702
plukacs@loyola.edu

Education

• Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
• M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
• B.A., Kenyon College

Courses Taught

• EN 203 Major Writers: American Literature
• EN 345 Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice
• EN 366 American Literature to the First World War

Professional Service

• Director, Center for the Humanities
• Senator, The Phi Beta Kappa Society

Publications

• Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures (2012)
• The Great Wines of America: The Top Forty Vitners, Vineyards, and Vintages (2005)
• American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (2000)
• Articles in American Heritage, Clio, ESQ, Saveur, and others