Martin Brückner, ( M.A. Mainz University '92, Germany; Ph.D. Brandeis Univerity '97), specializes in American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and Identity (UNC Press, 2006), and co-editor with Hsuan L. Hsu of American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 (under submission). His articles have been published in American Quarterly, English Literary History, American Literary History, and numerous essay collections. A recipient of the Francis Alison Younger Scholar Award (UD, '02) and the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (Omohundro Institute, '01) he is currently working on a book about translation, material culture, and performance in early America. Brückner teaches undergraduate courses on topics in early American literature, as well as on the history of the book and the environmental imagination in modern America. He has taught graduate courses on early American literature, cultural studies, and methods and research in literary studies. |
