Paul Hurh
- Associate Professor, English
- Associate Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-1836
- Modern Languages, Rm. 445
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- jphurh@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. English
- University of California--Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
- Epistemology and Terror in American Literature: Edwards, Poe, Melville
Awards
- Calderwood Seminar for Public Writing
- University of Arizona Honors College, Fall 2021
- Visiting Scholar
- University of Paris, Fall 2019
- Visiting Professorship
- University of Paris Diderot, Summer 2018
- Hennig Cohen Prize
- The Melville Society, Fall 2016
- Student Faculty Interaction Grant
- UA Student Affairs, Fall 2016
- University of Arizona Student Affairs, Fall 2014
- University of Arizona Student Affairs, Spring 2014
- Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award
- University of Arizona Honors College, Spring 2015
- Honors College Distinguished Fellowship
- University of Arizona Honors College, Fall 2014
- College of Humanities Initiatives Grant
- University of Arizona College of Humanities, Spring 2014
- Provost's Author's Support Fund
- University of Arizona Provost's Office, Spring 2014
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2025-26 Courses
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Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
ENGL 496A (Fall 2025) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2025) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Career Development for English
ENGL 490 (Spring 2025) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Spring 2025) -
Literary Analysis
ENGL 380 (Spring 2025) -
Romantic Literature
ENGL 460 (Spring 2025) -
Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
ENGL 496A (Fall 2024) -
Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
ENGL 373B (Fall 2024) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2024) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Spring 2024) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Spring 2024) -
Literary Analysis
ENGL 380 (Spring 2024) -
Topics In Am Literature
ENGL 486 (Spring 2024) -
Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
ENGL 373B (Fall 2023) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2023) -
Stds In Am Lit To 1900
ENGL 565 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
ENGL 373B (Fall 2022) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2022) -
Topics In Am Literature
ENGL 486 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
ENGL 496A (Spring 2022) -
Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
ENGL 373B (Spring 2022) -
Honors Independent Study
ENGL 499H (Spring 2022) -
Independent Study
ENGL 499 (Spring 2022) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Spring 2022) -
Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
ENGL 373B (Fall 2021) -
Topics In Am Literature
ENGL 486 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
ENGL 496A (Spring 2021) -
Literary Analysis
ENGL 380 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
ENGL 399 (Fall 2020) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2020) -
Literary Analysis
ENGL 380 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2019) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2019) -
Topics In Am Literature
ENGL 486 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2019) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Spring 2019) -
Literary Analysis
ENGL 380 (Spring 2019) -
Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
ENGL 496A (Fall 2018) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2018) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2018) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Spring 2018) -
Stds In Am Lit To 1900
ENGL 565 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2017) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2017) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
ENGL 373B (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2017) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2016) -
Honors Thesis
ENGL 498H (Fall 2016) -
Junior Proseminar
ENGL 396A (Fall 2016) -
Literary Analysis
ENGL 380 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Hurh, P. (2015). American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Chapters
- Hurh, P. (2017). Billy Budd: Pessimism for Post-Critique. In The New Melville. Cambridge University Press.
- Hurh, P. (2019). Poe the Critic: The Aesthetics of the 'Tomahawk' Review. In The Oxford Handbook to Edgar Allan Poe. Oxford University Press.
- Hurh, P. (2018). Herman Melville. In American Literary Scholarship 2016. Duke University Press.
- Hurh, P. (2017). Clarel, Time, Doubt. In Melville's Philosophies. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Hurh, P. (2016). "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo" by Herman Melville. In Short Story Criticism Series. Gale Publishing.
Presentations
- Hurh, J. P. (2022). Ahab's Advocate. Herman Melville Society Conference. Paris: Herman Melville Society.
- Hurh, P. (2016, Mar.). On Meillassoux. "Unsettling" / C19 Conference. State College, PA: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
- Hurh, P. (2017, March). Irrelative Scale in Poe's "Washer Woman Philosophy". American Literature and the Philosophical. Paris.
- Hurh, P. (2015, February). Scalar Rifts: Detachment in Poe's Cosmological Aesthetics. Poe Studies International Conference. New York City: Poe Studies.
- Hurh, P. (2015, January). Poe's Philosophy, Outer Space. Modern Languages Association Convention (MLA). Vancouver: Modern Languages Association.
- Hurh, P. (2015, March). The Arctic and the Polar: Death, Earth, and Cosmological Scale in Whitman and Dickinson. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: A Colloquy. Paris: European Association for American Studies.
- Hurh, P. (2014, July). Shock and Dread in Melville's Piazza Tales. NASSR: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Bethesday, MD: NASSR: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.More infoConference paper on new research. Invited by panel organizer.
- Hurh, P. (2014, March). "At Least in Theory": Poe, Barthes, Valdemar. C19: Conference for the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.More infoConference paper on new scholarship at the most selective conference in my field.
- Hurh, P. (2014, March). The Uneven Balance: American Literary Terror and Dialectical Philosophy. Invited Lecture for the University of Houston. Houston, TX: University of Houston.
Reviews
- Hurh, P. (2016. Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau(p. 4).More infoBook review of _Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau_ by Branka Arsic
- Hurh, P. (2015. Emily Dickinson and Philosophy(p. 4). Oxford.
