Peter Lang

<p style=”font-size:1.5em;”>Peter Lang (PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia) is an Assistant Professor of English at UCA and serves as the Graduate Coordinator for the MA English program. He joined the UCA faculty in the fall of 2022 as a Visiting Lecturer. His research and teaching interests include literary modernism, critical theory, and film. Specifically, Lang’s research focuses on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, biosemiotics, embodied cognition, and the ways in which modernist literature has provided a method and vocabulary for approaching notions of embodiment and subjectivity prior to contemporary theoretical and scientific advancements. His essay, “Openness from Closure: Creative Emergence and Embodied Dynamics in Eraserhead” will be included in the forthcoming Critical Companion to David Lynch from Lexington Books.