Paula

Geyh

Professor of English

Email:

geyh@yu.edu

Office Phone:

212-960-5400 x6862

Office Address:

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#506

Education:

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

Biography:

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

Teaching and Research Interests:

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.

Honors and Awards:

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

Publications:

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).

Email:

geyh@yu.edu

Office Phone:

212-960-5400 x6862

Office Address:

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#506

MEDIA RELATIONS

To request an interview, please contact Media Relations at 212-960-5400 x5488 or publicaffairs@yu.edu

Recent courses:

Fall 2022

Postmodern Fictions (ENG 2083)