TYRUS MILLER, Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Art History and English. A humanities research scholar and strategic university leader. He was previously the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSC and the Director of the UC Education Abroad Program’s Study Center in Budapest, Hungary. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a concurrent B.A./M.A. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins. He is an international scholar of 20th-century art, literature, and culture, with a specialization in the innovative modernist and avant-garde literary and artistic movements of Europe and the U.S. Dean Miller has also written on the art and culture of socialist and post-socialist East-Central Europe. His publication interests are in literature, cultural and social theory, philosophy, film studies, and visual and performing arts.