Miles Orvell is a professor of English and American studies at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...

. He is the founding editor of the ''

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''.

Biography

Orvell received his B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

and Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. He joined the faculty of

in 1969. Orvell has written on literary criticism and American cultural history with a specialization in visual culture. He has also written about the intersections between technology and culture as well as small-town life in America and its role in American culture and identity. From 2003 to 2011, he was the editor of the

. His book, ''The Real Thing,'' inspired British artist Holly Hendry's exhibition ''The Dump Is Full of Images'' at

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in 2019.

Bibliography

* ''Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction'' (Oxford University Press, 2021) * ''Photography in America'' (Oxford University Press, 2016) * ''The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940.'' 25th Anniversary edition, 2014. (University of North Carolina Press) * ''Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue,'' co-edited with Klaus Benesch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) * ''The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2012) * ''John Vachon’s America, Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II'' (University of California Press, 2003) * ''American Photography ''(Oxford History of Art Series, Oxford University Press, 2003) * ''After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries'' (University Press of Mississippi, 1995) * ''Invisible Parade: The Fiction of Flannery O'Connor'' (Temple University Press, 1972). Reprinted, with a new preface, as ''Flannery O'Connor: An Introduction'' (University Press of Mississippi, Fall 1991)

Awards

Orvell received the Bode-Pearson Prize from the

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for lifetime achievement in

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References

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