Paul Harris

Professor of English Loyola Marymount University

  • Los Angeles CA

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Paul A. Harris, Professor of English, served as President of the International Society for the Study of Time 2004-2013 and is co-editor of the literary theory journal SubStance: A Place for Creative Thinking. He has designed designated Slow Time Zones on LMU's campus, including The Garden of Slow Time and The Displacement Garden. He has collaborated on multimedia projects with jazz musician David Ornette Cherry, author David Mitchell, and artist Richard Turner; Harris, Turner and Thomas Elias co-authored Viewing Stones: Contemporary Approaches to Display (Floating Weeds Press, 2019). Time and Science (co-editor Remy Lestienne, Foreword by Carlo Rovelli, 3 volumes, World Scientific Publishing, 2023) and “Hermes Relics” (Introduction to Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Posthumanities Series, U of Minnesota P, 2023).

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

Environmental Humanities
David Mitchell's fiction
OULIPO/writing under constraints
Outsider Art/The Watts Towers of Los Angeles
Interdisciplinary study of time
Literary Theory
Geo-Poetics & Geo-Philosophy

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.

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Affiliations

  • SubStance: A Journal of Theory and Literary Criticism (Co-Editor)
  • International Society for the Study of Time

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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