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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
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

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

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Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
    ENGL 496A (Fall 2025)
  • Honors Thesis
    ENGL 498H (Fall 2025)
  • Independent Study
    ENGL 599 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Honors Thesis
    ENGL 498H (Fall 2019)
  • Topics In Am Literature
    ENGL 486 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Spring 2016)

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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 info
    Conference 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 info
    Conference 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 info
    Book review of _Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau_ by Branka Arsic
  • Hurh, P. (2015. Emily Dickinson and Philosophy(p. 4). Oxford.

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