Martin
Brückner, (M.A. Mainz University ‘92,
Germany; Ph.D. Brandeis University ’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 print culture, cultural studies and Romanticism,
and methods and research in literary studies.
Please
note: a native of Germany, his last name can also
be spelled “Brueckner.”
Department of English, Memorial Hall, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: 302-831-2361 . Fax: 302-831-1586 . Email: english@udel.edu
