Peter Lurie is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (2004) and of articles on Faulkner, Hart Crane, critical race theory, and the cinema of Richard Linklater. He is the editor, with Ann J. Abadie, of Faulkner and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2010 (2014). In 2015 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Warsaw. Also in 2015 he was Visiting Professor of English at the University of Paris, Diderot. Prior to his position at Richmond he taught Anglo-American Cinema and modern literature as a Fellow at Keble College, Oxford and at Harvard in the History and Literature program.