Rate My Professor Paul Peppis

An award-winning teacher, Peppis received the Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2012, the Junior Professorship Development Award in 2000, the New Faculty Award in 1996, and an Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship. His scholarship examines relations between early twentieth-century literature and cultural productions, reassessing modernism's engagements with social, political, scientific, and popular movements of the era; he is currently completing a book project titled Popular Modernisms. Key publications include the monographs Sciences of Modernism: Ethnography, Sexology, and Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde: Nation and Empire, 1901–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Prominent articles are Re-gendering Smart Classicism: Franklin P. Adams, Dorothy Parker, and the Middlebrow Classical Verse Revival (Modernist Cultures, 2022), Popular Modernism in the Late Krazy Kat Comics: Industry and Innovation in the Color Sundays (Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 2018), Querying and Queering Golden Age Detection: Gladys Mitchell's Speedy Death and Popular Modernism (Journal of Modern Literature, 2017), and Rewriting Sex: Mina Loy, Marie Stopes, and Sexology (Modernism/Modernity, 2002). He contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (2007) and The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster (2007), co-edited Western Humanities Review 74.3 (2020), and has served on the editorial board of Journal of Modern Periodical Studies since 2008. His research interests encompass Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Modernism Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, and The Novel. Peppis has provided extensive service on university committees and advocated for the humanities through leadership at the Oregon Humanities Center.