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4159 CHASS INT SOUTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Lutz, Tom

Professor of Creative Writing

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Creative Writing


Biography

Professor Lutz has taught at the University of Iowa, Stanford University, the University of Copenhagen, and the California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of American Nervousness, 1903, Cosmopolitan Vistas, Crying, and, most recently, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums. He has also written many shorter works in a variety of genres. He will be directing the Palm Desert MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, and teaching courses in both Palm Desert and Riverside on contemporary and modern literature, nonfiction writing, literary theory, and related topics.

Former Institution

University of Iowa

Degrees

Ph.D. Modern Thought and Literature 1989

Stanford University

M.A Modern Thought and Literature 1983

Stanford University

B.A. English and Journalism 1981

University of Massachusetts

Awards

2001-2004 Faculty Scholar Award, University of Iowa
1991, 1999 Developmental Assignment, University of Iowa
1989 Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa
1983-1985 Graduate Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
1981-1985 Stanford Graduate Award Prize in the Humanities


Publications

Books
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America, in press, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, May 16, 2006

Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Literary Regionalism and the Making of Literary Value, Cornell University Press, 2004

Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, W.W. Norton & Co., 1999

American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History, Cornell University Press, 1991