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 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]
(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.