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Paula Geyh

Paula
Geyh

Professor of English

geyh@yu.edu
212-960-5400 x6862

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#506

PhD, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
MA, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 1990
BA, English, French, and German, Miami University, 1979

Paula Geyh is a specialist in postmodern American and European literature, literary and cultural theory, and film.

She teaches twentieth-century American literature, postmodern American and European fiction, literary and cultural theory, and film studies, along with more specialized courses on the cultural history of the 1960s, spatial theory and literature of the twentieth-century American city, utopias and dystopias, and the history and future of the book.

 

She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award.

She is the author of CITIES, CITIZENS, AND TECHNOLOGIES: URBAN LIFE AND POSTMODERNITY (Routledge, 2009), editor of THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTION (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and co-editor of POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTION: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY (W.W. Norton, 1998).

geyh@yu.edu
212-960-5400 x6862

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#506

MEDIA RELATIONS

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Fall 2022

Postmodern Fictions (ENG 2083)

Books on Books/Films on Films (ENG 1001)

 

Spring 2022

Art of Film: 1968 - Present (ENG 2964)

Interpreting Texts (ENG 2010)

Books on Books/Films on Films (ENG 1001)

 

Fall 2021

The 1960s: A Political and Cultural History (ENG 3092)

Books on Books/Films on Films (ENG 1001)

First-Year Writing (FYWR 1020)

 

Spring 2021

Art of Film: 1896 - 1968 (ENG 2960)

Books on Books/Films on Films (ENG 1001)

 

Fall 2020

America Literature and Art: 1865 - Present (ENG 2612)

Books on Books/Films on Films (ENG 1001)