Gerald L. Bruns
William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English
Department of English
Degrees
B.A., M.A., Marquette University; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Research Profile
Bruns's teaching and research deals with modern and contemporary experimental writing. Recent courses include "Experimental Writing by Contemporary Women Poets," with special attention to the work of Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Rae Armontrout, and "Conceptual Fiction: Kafka and After," on the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec, Paul Auster, and Lydia Davis. Bruns also teaches courses on modern drama, theater, and performance art since the 1950s. His books include Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language (1974); Inventions: Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History (1982); Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings (1989); Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern (1992); Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy (1997); Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory (1999); The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics (2005); and On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (2006).
Contact Information
200
Decio Faculty Hall
631-6991
Gerald.L.Bruns.1@nd.edu
