Gerald Bruns
William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English
Specialty
Comparative literature, hermeneutics, poetics
Degrees
B.A., M.A., Marquette University; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Profile
Gerald Bruns’s current interests are in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, twentieth-century experimental fiction, and the various European and American avant-garde movements that emerged after World War II. Recent books are On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (2006), The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics (2005), Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory (1999), and Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy (1997). In progress is a book on the poets Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian. He has won NEH and Guggenheim fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Recent Publications
On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly. Fordham University Press, 2006.
The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics. University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory. Northwestern University Press, 1999.
Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern. Yale University Press, 1992.
Contact Information
200 Decio Faculty Hall
(574-) 631-6991
Gerald.L.Bruns.1@nd.edu
http://www.e-cosmopolis.com/glb/glb_rev.html