Tyrus Miller

Dean
School of Humanities

Distinguished Professor, Art History
School of Humanities

Distinguished Professor, English
School of Humanities

20th-century art, literature, and culture; modernism and avant-garde; socialist and post-socialist culture; critical theory.

Tyrus Miller is Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He brings to the position more than twenty years as an interdisciplinary scholar in the humanities; extensive administrative experience in a variety of roles from undergraduate liberal education to graduate education to institutional management; and a rich engagement with humanities research as a scholar and strategic university leader. Prior to his coming to UC Irvine, he served as Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and as Co-Provost of Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz, and as the Director of the UC Education Abroad Program’s Study Center in Budapest, Hungary.

(Author) Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetic, History, Utopia

(Author) Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars

(Author) Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde

(Author) Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in 20th-Century Theory, History, and Art

(Author) Modernism and the Frankfurt School

(Editor) Art, Philosophy, and Ideology: Writings on Aesthetics and Visual Culture from the Avantgarde to Postsocialism, by Aleš Erjavec

(Editor) Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context

(Editor) A Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis

(Translator) The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition by György Lukács

(Co-Editor, with Carrie Noland) Jackson Mac Low: Between Writing and Performance

(Co-Editor, with Erik Bachman) Brill Publisher’s Lukács Library series

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Last updated
01/15/2026