Tyrus Miller

Tyrus Miller is Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Professor in the Department of Literature. He earned a concurrent BA/MA in the Humanities and an additional MA in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University; his PhD is in English with a Comparative Literature concentration at Stanford University. He held the position of assistant and associate professor in the Department of English, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Film Program at Yale University from 1995-1999, and he assumed his appointment in Literature at UC Santa Cruz in 1999. From 2001-2004, he directed the University of California Education Abroad Program Study Center in Budapest, Hungary and has twice been the recipient of Fulbright Scholarships, in Austria in 1991-92 and in Austria and Hungary in 2005. His fields of academic specialty include modernist and avant-garde literature and arts, cultural theory, and socialist / post-socialist culture in Central and Eastern Europe. He is author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (U of California P, 1999); Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern UP, 2009); and TIme Images: Alternative Temporalities in 20th-Century Theory, History, and Art (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). He is editor of Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context (Central European UP, 2008) and translator / editor of György Lukács, The Culture of People's Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition (Brill, 2011).