Peter Lang

Peter Lang is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), serving since 2022. He holds a PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia. His research bridges literary modernism, critical theory, and film, with a focus on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, biosemiotics, and embodied cognition. Lang examines how modernist literature prefigured contemporary theories of embodiment and subjectivity.

Education: PhD in English, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Research emphasizes interdisciplinary connections between philosophy, film, and literature. His work on David Lynch’s Eraserhead explores embodied dynamics, set for publication in Critical Companion to David Lynch (Lexington Books, 2023). No grants or awards explicitly noted, but his scholarly contributions reflect engagement with avant-garde themes and cognitive approaches.

Teaching and advising roles are not detailed, but his departmental affiliation is the English Department at UCA’s Irby Hall.