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Tyrus Miller
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Professor of Comparative Literature / Cowell College Provost / Associate Dean of Graduate Studies |
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Cowell 112 |
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(831) 459-5031 Office
(831) 459-2609 Message |
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tyrus@ucsc.edu |
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Modernist, avant-garde, and postmodernist literature; the interrelations of the arts in the 20th century; aesthetics; cinema and film theory; the Frankfurt School; philosophy and social theory; contemporary poetry and language arts |
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FALL 2009: M 1-5 by appt only at Cowell |
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LTMO 231-02 - Modernism and Critical Theory (Graduate Course)
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Books
 
Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars
University of California Press
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Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Northwestern University Press
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Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context
Central European University Press
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Articles in Professional Journals
2007 “Retroavantgarde: Aesthetic Revival and the Con/Figurations of 20th-Century Time”, Filozofski Vestnik 28/2 (2007), 253-265, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 "Ridiculously Modern Mardsen: Tragicomic Form and Queer Modernity," Modernist Cultures 2/2, 87-101
2005 "Incomplete Modernities: Historicizing Yugoslavian Avant-Gardes," Modernism / Modernity 12 / 4, 713-722
2003 “Rethinking Central Europe: The Symbolic Geography of the Avant-Garde”, Modernism / Modernity 10/3, pp. 559-567
Chapters in Books
2007 "Glass before its time, premature iron": Architecture, Temporality, and Dream in Benjamin's Passagenwerk, Walter Benjamin's Passagenwerk, Athlone Press (UK) and Continuum Press (US), 240-258; 293-296 ed. Beatrice Hanssen and Andrew Benjamin
2007 "Situation and Event: The Destinations of Sense," Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Mark Franko, Routledge, London, 75-90
2006 "1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History," The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 98-100eds. Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
1998 "Mimesis, Mimicry, and Critical Theory in Exile: Walter Benjamin's Approach to the Collčge de Sociologie," Exile, Borders, Diasporas, eds. Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton, in "Cultural Sitings", Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp. 123-133
Other Research
1994 [Poetry] Earthworks and Others, Small Poetry Press, Pleasant Hill, California, No pagination
Other Creative Activities
2007 "The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)" with Darren Waterston., San Francisco: Gallery 16, 2007. www.gallery16.com, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon A print portfolio composed of thirteen prints and thirteen letterpress broadsides. The series explores the senses and bodily experiences of Saint Francis of Assisi. The texts and images project Francis through a double prism of both medieval and contemporary conceptions of the senses. Edition of 40. [Print portfolio] September 6, 2007 October 21, 2007
- From "The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)"
2006 “Victory Over the Sun: El Lissitzky’s Graphic Portfolio”, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery (Annex), Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz. With captions for each displayed work and other curatorial text, along with DVD presentation of original language performance of the opera at UCSC in May 2006. [Curatorial] October 1, 2006 October 27, 2006  |
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