Education

2010 Concordia University, B.A.
2012 The University of Toronto, M.A.
2019 SUNY, The University at Buffalo, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Reading Locally and Globally
Writing and Research
Global Literary Adaptations: Alien Invasion Narratives
Literary History II

Career Specialties

Lakoff specializes in British and Irish modernism, media theory, radio studies, sound studies, and archival methods.

Professional and Community Activities

Lakoff's research centers on a time when radio was a new medium and it asks how broadcasting affected the cultural imagination of the time. In particular, he looks into how radio and television studios were sites for developing new modes of artistic expression and how cultural producers crafted a professional identity working with new techniques and technologies. This work blends archival and historical research with close analysis of contemporary depictions of radio in novels, plays, periodicals, films, and memoirs.

He has also published on a variety of authors and topics, including scholarship on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Bram Stoker, Denis Johnston, Lance Sieveking, Val Gielgud, and Joseph Conrad. 

Honors and Awards

2022 The University of Tampa, Professional Development Award
2020 The University of Tampa, RISE Grant
2018 The University at Buffalo, Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award
2017 The University at Buffalo, Robert and Carol Morris Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2016 The University at Buffalo, Opler-Doubrava Fellowship
2012 The University at Buffalo, Presidential Fellowship
2012 The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Grant