Paul Harris
Professor of English
Biography
Education
University of California at Irvine
Ph.D.
English
1991
University of California at Irvine
M.A.
English
1986
McGill University
B.A.
English
1984
Cum Laude
Social
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Origins, Visiting Scholar, Contemplative Resource Center
2020-01-15
Fall 2019 University of Colorado, Boulder
2016-17 Daum Professorship
Created from a legacy received from Harry M. Daum, Class of 1938, the Daum Professorship is an annual award to a senior professor in the College who has exhibited a record of excellence in teaching and advising, scholarship or creative work, and service to the department, college and university.
President (2004 – 2013), International Society for the Study of Time (http://www.studyoftime.org/)
Served three terms as President of ISST.
Faculty Senate President, 2010 – 2011
Facilitated vote for new Core Curriculum, Faculty Handbook revision
Chair of English Department, 2011 – 2015
Chaired department during curriculum revision and transition to 4 unit courses.
Affiliations
- SubStance: A Journal of Theory and Literary Criticism (Co-Editor)
- International Society for the Study of Time
Links
Research Grants
Summer Research Grant
Temporal Suspension in the Cretan Labyrinth
2013
Faith and Justice Research Grant
Re-Engaging Canonical Wisdom Texts: Homelessness in the Book of Job and King Lear
2011
Faith and Justice Course Development Grant
Detecting the Divine
2010
Summer Research Grant
“Cosmic Epics and Global Ethics”
2008
Catholic Studies Course Development Grant
“Wisdom and the Void”
2007
Marymount Institute Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies
Loyola Marymount University
2004 - 05
Courses
First Year Seminar: From Eternity to Here
FYS 1000
Spaces of Wonder
ENGL 398
Homelessness: From The Book of Job to the Streets of L.A.
ENGL 398
Time in Philosophy, Fiction, and Film
ENGL 467
Detecting the Divine
ENGL 498
Style in Writing
ENGL 567
A Course About Nothing
ENGL 598
Constraint-based Writing and Literature
ENGL 598
The Labyrinth in American Literature
ENGL 598
Contemporary Critical Theory
ENGL 605
Articles
Tracing the Cretan Labyrinth: Mythology, Archaeology, Topology, Phenomenology
Kronoscope: Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Time"Tracing the Cretan Labyrinth: Mythology, Archaeology, Topology, Phenomenology." Kronoscope: Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Time: 14 (2014): 133-49.
Introduction: David Mitchell in the Labyrinth of Time
SubStance“Introduction: David Mitchell in the Labyrinth of Time” SubStance 136 Vol 44, no. 1, 2015: 3-7.
David Mitchell in the Laboratory of Time: An Interview with the Author
SubStance“David Mitchell in the Laboratory of Time: An Interview with the Author.” SubStance 136 Vol 44, no. 1, 2015: 8-17.
David Mitchell’s Fractal Imagination: The Bone Clocks
SubStance“David Mitchell’s Fractal Imagination: The Bone Clocks.” SubStance 136 Vol 44, no. 1, 2015: 148-53.
Sam Rodia's Watts Towers in Six Sections in Succession
Towers in Watts“Sam Rodia's Watts Towers in Six Sections in Succession." In Luisa del Giudice, ed.,Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts (New York: Fordham UP, 2014): 79-89.