Dr. Brian Glaser

I have taught at Chapman University for twenty years. In 2023 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 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 Award for Curriculum Innovation in Sustainability Education (2012) and the Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019). Before coming to 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 includes more than sixty undergraduate students.

I have published five books of poems with Shanti Arts: All the Hills (2019), Contradictions (2020), Difficult Joy (2021), Reparation Gate (2023) and Unnamed Canyon (2024). I have also published more than twenty 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 German Academic Exchange Service, and the Fulbright Commission.