Tyrus Miller
Tyrus Miller | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Dean, School of Humanities, UCI Professor, Art History and English, UCI |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D., Stanford University, English
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Creative Writing B.A./M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Humanities |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
Tyrus Miller is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Art History and English at the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine.[1]
He is a scholar of 20th-century art, literature, and culture. His scholarship spans modernist and avant-garde movements and critical theory. He served as a tenured professor at UCSC.[2] Miller also serves on a scientific advisory committee at UNESCO.[3]
Miller previously served as Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, Co-Provost of Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz, and as the Director of the UC Education Abroad Program’s Study Center in Budapest, Hungary.[4][5]
Miller earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in English in 1994, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in Creative Writing in 1988, and a B.A./M.A. from Johns Hopkins in Humanities in 1985.[2]
Publications[6][edit]
- (Author) Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, Utopia. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- (Author) Modernism and the Frankfurt School. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- (Author) Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant Garde. Northwestern University Press, 2009.
- (Author) Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in 20th-Century Theory, History, and Art. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
- (Author) Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars. University of California Press, 1999.
- (Editor) Aleš Erjavec, Art, Philosophy, and Ideology: Writings on Aesthetics and Visual Culture from the Avantgarde to Postsocialism. Brill Publishers, 2024.
- (Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- (Editor) Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context. Central European University Press, 2008.
- (Co-editor and translation editor with Erik Bachman) Georg Lukács, The Specificity of the Aesthetic, volume 1. Brill Publishers, 2023; paperback Haymarket Books, 2024.
- (Co-editor) Jackson Mac Low: Between Performance and Writing, eds. Tyrus Miller and Carrie Noland, Slought Foundation, 2023. Accompanies a new edition of Jackson Mac Low, The Pronouns, originally published 1979.
- (Translator) The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition by György Lukács. Brill Publishers, 2013; paperback Haymarket Books, 2014.
References[edit]
- ^ "Welcome Tyrus Miller: new UCI School of Humanities Dean". humanities.uci.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ a b "School of Humanities Gets a New Dean: Welcoming Tyrus Miller | New University | UC Irvine". 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ "MOST Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)". UNESCO.
- ^ "Tyrus Miller reappointed as dean of UCI School of Humanities". www.humanities.uci.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ "Tyrus Miller". The Conversation. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ "Tyrus Miller". edinburghuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2024-05-02.