Dr Brian Glaser

I have taught at Chapman University for 19 years, all of them in the English department. In 2023 I received the Valerie Scudder award, Chapman’s highest faculty honor for teaching and service. I have taught more than 20 different courses in writing and literature, and have created a number of original courses for Chapman students, including Writing about the Global Human Rights Movement, Environmental Rhetoric, Writing about Taoism, and Poetry and Social Science. I have received at Chapman the Faculty Award for Curriculum Innovation in Sustainability Education (2012) and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019). Before coming to Chapman, I taught as a post-doc in the English department at UC Berkeley and at universities in Mexico, Guatemala, Portugal and Germany.

I am the co-director with Prof. Art Blaser of the Disability Studies minor at Chapman, which includes more than 70 undergraduate students.

I have published four books of poems with Shanti Arts, All the Hills (2019), Contradictions (2020), Difficult Joy (2021) and Reparation Gate (2023). I have also published more than 20 essays on poetry and poetics in national and international scholarly venues, including essays in College Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Amerikastudien, American Imago and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. I have received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2019, I received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship at Chapman.