THE LUCKOW FAMILY ENDOWED CHAIR IN ENGLISH
Megan Quigley, PhD
Megan Quigley, PhD, professor of English, is the Luckow Family Endowed Chair in English Literature in Villanova’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She earned her BA from Stanford University, her MPhil from Oxford University, and PhD from Yale University. As affiliated faculty in Irish Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, Dr. Quigley’s research and courses examine literary modernism, 20th century British and Irish fiction, and the relationship between philosophy and fiction. Her current research extends debates in early 20th-century philosophy of language to contemporary questions about impersonality, authorship, and machine learning.
Dr. Quigley is the author of Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language (2015) and the co-editor of Eliot Now (2024), a collection of revisionary approaches to the works of T. S. Eliot. Her essays examine the works of T. S. Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as topics of Irish modernism, the #MeToo movement, modernism and fanfiction, and have been published in academic texts such as Logic, Modern Literature and Artificial Intelligence, Modernism/modernity, and Philosophy and Literature. She has also shared her scholarship on BBC4 and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Her new book project is titled The Love Song of Modernism: Impersonality and AI.
About the Luckow Family Endowed Chair in English
Through their personal interest and The Luckow Family Foundation, Robert W. and Audrey Luckow have distinguished themselves as philanthropists who have generously supported a variety of worthy causes. In addition to providing critical resources to Villanova through endowing the Chair in English and supporting the University's Annual Fund, their gifts have touched the lives of many in significant ways, from ensuring access to top-quality health care to providing spiritual, recreational and educational opportunities for children in need. In particular, they established the Luckow Family Challenge with their daughter, Stefanie ’06 CLAS, a matching gift program that has supported more than 40 endowed scholarships across the University.
Beyond their kind financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Luckow have contributed to the vitality of the University through their former service on the Parents Executive Committee, the lead parent volunteer group within University Advancement's Parent Program, which works with Villanova's Office of Student Life, Career Center and Enrollment Management to create strategies to reach more parents and involve them more closely in the life of the University. Through the establishment of The Luckow Family Endowed Chair in English and The Luckow Family Endowed Fund for Scholarships in Education, the Luckow family has bolstered the innovative, mission-driven programs that serve to define the Villanova experience, distinguish the College and the University and provide students with a solid foundation of Augustinian values and knowledge.