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Co-Program Directors
Dr. Brian Glaser has taught at Chapman fornineteen years, all of them in the English Department. In
2023 he received the Valerie Scudder award, Chapman’s highest faculty honor for teaching
and service. He has taught more than twenty different courses in writing and literature,
and has 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. He has 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, he taught as a postdoc in the English
Department at UC Berkeley and at universities in Mexico, Guatemala, Portugal and Germany.
He has published four books of poems with Shanti Arts, All the Hills (2019), Contradictions
(2020), Difficult Joy (2021) and Reparation Gate (2023). He has also published more
than twenty 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. He has received fellowships
from the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the German Academic Exchange
Service. In 2019, he received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship at Chapman.
Dr. Art Blaser is Professor of Peace Studies and Political Science and has been on the Chapman faculty
since 1981. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and his J.D. from Southwestern
University School of Law. His major area of emphasis is law, international relations,
and comparative politics, and his research and teaching interests include disability
studies, human rights, and international non-government organizations.
He is on the editorial review boards of 'Disability Studies Quarterly' and 'New Political Science,' and a member of the American Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of Disability in the Profession.