Tyler Curtain

Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill

Member Faculty, Expressive Communication and the Origins of Meaning Research Group, UNC Chapel Hill

Faculty Associate, Center for Philosophy of Biology, Department of Philosophy, Duke University

Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science, Technology & Medicine, Duke University

Hire Date: 1999

Ph. D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1999 (English and American Literature)

B.Sc., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988 (Computer Science from the College of Engineering and Applied Science)

Tyler Curtain is a theorist with the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in theory, as well as courses in science fiction and fantasy. He is Faculty Associate in the Center for the Philosophy of Biology at Duke University. He is a member of the Expressive Communication and the Origins of Language Research Group (ECOM) in the Department of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill.  Finally, Tyler is faculty in the Program for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine at Duke University. His research interests include philosophy of biology, evolutionary theories of language, linguistics, philosophy of language, and theoretical computer science.