Dr Peter Zusi
Associate Professor
SSEES
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 1st Oct 2007
Research summary
Teaching summary
Courses taught
SEEE1006 Literature and Memory (BA)
SEEE2010 Tales of the Unexpected: The Supernatural and Fantastic in Literature, 1800-1930 (BA)
SEESGE18 All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Culture, Politics and Everyday Life in Central & Eastern Europe from Stalin to Present (MA)
SEESGR17 Contemporary Cultural Studies: Between Post-Communism and Post-Modernism (MA)
SEESGE86 Literatures of Rupture: Modernism in Russia and Eastern Europe (MA)
SEESGE95 Literary and Cultural Theory (MA)
Education
- University of Chicago
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2001
- University of Chicago
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 1994
- Yale University
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 1989
Biography
I grew up in New York City. I studied literature at Yale (BA) and comparative literature and social thought at the University of Chicago (MA, PhD), where my original interest in German literature rapidly expanded to include Czech literature in particular and central European literature in general. My doctoral dissertation examined intellectual and ideological functions of the notion of "historicism" in Czech and German avant-gardes in the interwar period. After defending my dissertation I taught for several years in the Slavic department at Harvard.