Dr. Peter Lurie

Assistant Professor of English
312 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8318
Fax: (804) 289-8313

Teaching:
Modern American Fiction
Film Studies
20th Century American Poetry
Modernism and Mass Culture
William Faulkner

Research:
Historical trauma
American Modernism
Hart Crane
Film and History
Reception Theory
Gender and Sexuality
The Frankfurt School
Faulkner Studies
Gothic American Literature

Education:
M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Boston University

Selected Publications:

Vision's Immanence:  Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2004).

"Cinematic Fascination in Light in August," The Blackwell Companion to Faulkner, ed.
Richard Moreland (forthcoming 2006).

"Querying the Modernist Canon:  Historical Consciousness and the Sexuality of Suffering
in Faulkner and Hart Crane" Faulkner Journal XX (1 & 2) (fall 2004/spring 2005).

"Faulkner and Cultural Studies," A Companion to Faulkner Studies, ed. Charles Peek and
Robert Hamblin (Greenwood Press, 2004).

"'Some Trashy Myth of Reality's Escape':  Romance, History, and Film Viewing in
Absalom, Absalom!" American Literature 73(3) September 2001.