Dr. Peter Lurie

Assistant Professor of English

312 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8318
Fax: (804) 289-8313

Peter Lurie has taught at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow at Keble College (2003-05), and at Harvard in the History and Literature program (2001-03).  His teaching and research interests include William Faulkner, Film Studies, nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, and Modernism.  He has taught courses in the English Department at Richmond on Faulkner’s major fiction, twentieth century American poetry, American genre cinema, and literature and film, as well as general education and introductory courses on American literature and on cinema.

Education:
B.A. Brown University - Comparative Literature 1988
M.A. Boston University - English, 1992
Ph.D. Boston University - English, 2001

Selected Publications:

Books

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

American Obscurantism (a book-length study of American literature and film, in progress)

Articles and essays

"Faulkner’s Sexualized City: Modernism, Commerce, and the (Textual) Body," Faulkner’s Sexualities: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2007, ed. Donald Kartiganer.  Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming 2010.

"The French Faulkner: Vision, Instrumentality, and Sanctuary's 'Lake of Ink'."  Transatlantic Visions: The American South in Europe, Europe in the American South, ed. Waldemar
Zacharasiewicz and Richard Grey.  Vienna: The Austrian Academy of Sciences,  2007.

"Cinematic Fascination in Light in August." The Blackwell Companion to Faulkner, ed. Richard Moreland. Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2006.

"Querying the Modernist Canon: Historical Consciousness and the Sexuality of Suffering in Faulkner and Hart Crane." The Faulkner Journal Special Issue: Faulkner, Memory, and History, 20:1&2 (fall 2004/spring 2005).

"Faulkner and Cultural Studies." The Companion to William Faulkner Studies, ed. Charles A. Peek, Robert Hamblin.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.

"Screening Readerly Pleasures: Modernism, Melodrama, and Mass Markets in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem."  Études Faulknériennes, vol. 3 (spring 2002).

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