Peter Lurie Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Peter Lurie, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies Teaching Fellowship at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
 
Dr. Lurie will be in residence in Warsaw during the spring 2015 academic semester. He has proposed to teach a course on the intersections of American history and film, which would include films such as Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 film, There Will Be Blood, among others.  Other possible courses include Modernism, The Persistence of the Gothic in America, and Cross-Cultural Influences: Poe, Faulkner and the Film Noir.  His research interests also include the directors and products of Polish cinema, specifically the interchange between U.S. films and their reception by Polish directors as well as the reverse – an American director responding directly to the Polish films known as the Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red, directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.
 
Dr. Lurie attended Brown University (B.A.) and Boston University (M.A. and Ph.D.).  He has taught at the University of Richmond since 2004, having also taught at Oxford University and Harvard.  He has been a guest lecturer at Rennes University 2 in France, and at Uppsala University in Sweden. In 2009-10 he was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina.  His publications include books, such as his forthcoming second book, American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in American Literature and Film (Oxford University Press), along with many articles and book chapters.
 
Fulbright Polska’s goal is to support educational, cultural and scholarly cooperation between Poland and the U.S.