Paul Hurh is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 2008.  Situated primarily in the field of nineteenth-century American literature, Hurh’s research has focused on questions of literary aesthetics, philosophy, and intellectual history.   His book, American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2015), charts the relation between models of Enlightenment method and the development of literary terror as a philosophical affect.  His current project considers nineteenth-century American literature within the new philosophy of speculative realism and includes studies of Edgar Allan Poe’s astronomical aesthetics, spacetime in Herman Melville, and scalar rifts in Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.  His essays have appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Style, and Novel.