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John Lurz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Tufts University, part of the School of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century British fiction, particularly James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, alongside literary theory (semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, phenomenology), media studies, and the history of the book. He has written extensively on Roland Barthes and Proust, emphasizing interdisciplinary connections between literature and visual studies.
Education: PhD in English Literature from UC Berkeley (2011); BA in English from Princeton University (2003).
Teaching includes courses like 'British Modernism,' 'Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Group,' 'James Joyce's Ulysses,' and graduate seminars exploring literary theory. Recent publications (2021–2025) engage with Barthesian criticism, semiotics, modernist narrative techniques, and the materiality of books.
No scientific awards are listed in the provided texts. His work bridges historical literary analysis with contemporary critical theory, reflecting a commitment to both canonical and interdisciplinary scholarship.
