Dr. Brian Glaser

I have taught at Chapman University for twenty-one years. Three years ago I received the Valerie Scudder award, Chapman’s highest faculty honor for teaching. I have taught more than twenty different courses in writing and literature, and I have created original courses for Chapman students, including Writing about the Human Rights Movement, Environmental Rhetoric, Writing about Daoism, and Poetry and Social Science. I have received at Chapman the Award for Curriculum Innovation in Sustainability Education (2012) and the Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019). Before joining the faculty at Chapman, I taught as a postdoc at UC Berkeley and at universities in Campeche, Lisbon, Guatemala City and Duesseldorf.

I am the director of the Disability Studies minor at Chapman, which educates more than sixty undergraduate students in fields as diverse as Education, English, Political Science, Sociology, History, Graphic Design, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Computer Science.

I have published six books of poems with Shanti Arts: All the Hills (2019), Contradictions (2020), Difficult Joy (2021), Reparation Gate (2023), Unnamed Canyon (2024) and Mountains and the Sea (2025). I have also published twenty-four essays on 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 Huntington Library, the Deutscher Akademikischer Austauschdienst and the Fulbright Commission.