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Ben De Bruyn

Professeur

SSH/FIAL Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters (FIAL)

SSH/INCA Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres (INCAL)

  • Expertise :
  • contemporary literature
  • literary history
  • ecocriticism
  • environmental humanities
2025
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2025). An Earth Brimming with Interest: Everyday Landscapes and Multispecies Relevance in The Nature Book. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 1(1), 1759-1090. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf027 (Original work published 2025)


2024
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2024). Wayward Plots: Public Transport and Abolition Narratology in Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows. Critique (Washington) : studies in contemporary fiction, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2311746 (Original work published 2024)


2023
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2023). Introduction: beyond the sacrifice zone. Textual Practice, 37(10), 1475-1498. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2264675 (Original work published 2023)


2022
Book chapter

De Bruyn, B. (2022). 10. The Everyday Pluriverse : Ecosystem Modelling in Reservoir 13. In Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine (eds.) (ed.), Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance (p. p. 261-298). https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0303.10


2021
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2021). Literatuur, wetenschap en de onbekende planeet. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 137(1), 81-85. https://doi.org/10.5117/tntl2021.1.004.bruy (Original work published 2021)


De Bruyn, B. (2021). The Mom and the Many: Animal Subplots and Vulnerable Characters in Ducks, Newburyport. Genre (Norman) : forms of discourse and culture, 54(2), 265-292. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-9263104 (Original work published 2021)


2020
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2020). Dolende dieren: Klimaat, migratie en evolutie in Gun Island en Grand Hotel Europa. Vooys, 38(3), 26-36. (Original work published 2020)


De Bruyn, B. (2020). The Great Displacement: Reading Migration Fiction at the End of the World. Critique (Washington) : studies in contemporary fiction, 9(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9010025 (Original work published 2020)


De Bruyn, B. (2020). Review of Glenn A. Albrecht, Earth Emotions. American Imago : psychoanalysis and the human sciences, 77(1), 213-222. (Original work published 2020)


Monography

De Bruyn, B. (2020). The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30122-4


2018
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2018). The Hot War: Climate, Security, Fiction. Studies in the Novel, 50(1), 43-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2018.0003 (Original work published 2018)


2017
Book chapter

De Bruyn, B. (2017). Author Homes in Coffee Table Books: Half-Reading, Literary Décor, and the Good Life. In Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe (eds) (ed.), From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors.


Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2017). Article review of Julie A. Smith, “Representing Animal Minds in Early Animal Autobiography: Charlotte Tucker’s The Rambles of a Rat and Nineteenth-Century Natural History.”. Journal of Literature and Science, 10(1), 83-84. (Original work published 2017)


Bond, L., Rapson, J., & De Bruyn, B. (2017). Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction. Textual Practice, 31(5), 853-866. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1323458 (Original work published 2017)


De Bruyn, B. (2017). Realism 4°. Objects, weather and infrastructure in Ben Lerner’s 10:04. Textual Practice, 31(5), 951-971. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1323490 (Original work published 2017)


2016
Monography

et al. (2016). Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History. Edinburgh University Press.


Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2016). Polyphony beyond the Human: Animals, Music, and Community in Coetzee and Powers. Studies in the Novel, 48(3), 364-383. https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2016.0041 (Original work published 2016)


De Bruyn, B. (2016). Anthropocene Audio: The Animal Soundtrack of the Contemporary Novel. Critique (Washington) : studies in contemporary fiction, 57(2), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019411 (Original work published 2016)


De Bruyn, B. (2016). Learning to Be a Species in the Anthropocene: On Annie Proulx’s Barkskins. Frame, 29(2), 71-90. (Original work published 2016)


De Bruyn, B. (2016). Why Look at Dust Storms? Cosmic Subjects, Vibrant Matter and Interstellar’s Climate Change. Collateral, 1(1), 1-16. (Original work published 2016)


2015
Journal article

De Bruyn, B., & et al. (2015). Stoelen, manden, stenen: Objecten in de hedendaagse roman. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 131(2), 147-170. (Original work published 2015)


Book chapter

De Bruyn, B. (2015). “You Should Be Teaching”: Creative Writing and Extramural Academics in Perdido Street Station and Embassytown. In Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia (eds) (ed.), China Miéville: Critical Essays (p. p. 159-184).


2013
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2013). Where to Do Things with Words : Circulating Books, Decorating Rooms and Locating Modern Reading. Orbis Litterarum : international review of literary studies, 68(6), 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12015 (Original work published 2013)


De Bruyn, B. (2013). Earlier is Impossible: Deep Time and Geological Posthumanism in Dutch Literature. Journal of Dutch Literature, 4(2), 68-91. (Original work published 2013)


De Bruyn, B., & et al. (2013). E-readers, Deconvergence Culture and McSweeney’s Circle. An Interview with Jim Collins. Image & Narrative : online magazine of the visual narrative, 14(3), 193-206. (Original work published 2013)


Baetens, J., Bru, S., De Geest, D., Martens, D., Van Den Bossche, B., De Bruyn, B., Bonciarelli, S., Reverseau, A., Verstraeten, P., Van den Bergh, C., Somers, M., & Vandevelde, T. (2013). Pour une nouvelle approche de la dynamique littéraire. Pense-bête. Fabula LHT, 11. (Original work published 2013)


De Bruyn, B. (2013). Book review: Robert Appelbaum, Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(3), 380-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549412456656 (Original work published 2013)


Monography

Baetens, J., Bru, S., De Geest, D., Martens, D., Van Den Bossche, B., De Bruyn, B., Bonciarelli, S., Reverseau, A., Verstraeten, P., Van den Bergh, C., Somers, M., Vandevelde, T., Vanmol, A., Willem, G., de Beun, C., Willaert, T., Pouzet-Duzer, V., & Gilleir, A. (2013). Modern Times. Literary Change. Peeters.


Book chapter

Baetens, J., Bru, S., De Geest, D., Martens, D., Van Den Bossche, B., De Bruyn, B., Bonciarelli, S., Reverseau, A., Verstraeten, P., Van den Bergh, C., Somers, M., & Vandevelde, T. (2013). ABC of Literary History. In MDRN Group (Jan Baetens et al.) (ed.), Modern Times, Literary change (p. p. 9-24). Peeters.


2012
Monography

De Bruyn, B. (2012). Wolfgang Iser. A Companion. De Gruyter.


Journal article

De Bruyn, B., & et al. (2012). De revanche van de populaire cultuur: Literatuur, nieuwe media, en smaak. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 128(2), 160-182. (Original work published 2012)


De Bruyn, B. (2012). Eten! Lezen! Reizen! - Traditie, toerisme en lifestyle bij Bart van Loo en Geerten Meijsing. Nederlandse Letterkunde, 17(3), 204-224. https://doi.org/10.5117/nedlet2012.3.eten354 (Original work published 2012)


2010
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2010). Borrowed Time, Borrowed World and Borrowed Eyes: Care, Ruin and Vision in McCarthy’s The Road and Harrison’s Ecocriticism. English Studies : a journal of English language and literature, 91(7), 776-789. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2010.518045 (Original work published 2010)


De Bruyn, B. (2010). The Gathering of Form: Forests, Gardens and Legacies in Robert Pogue Harrison. Oxford Literary Review, 32(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2010.0003 (Original work published 2010)


2008
Journal article

De Bruyn, B. (2008). De impliciete esthetica. Spiegel der Letteren, 50(4), 507-529. https://doi.org/10.2143/sdl.50.4.2033505 (Original work published 2008)


De Bruyn, B. (2008). The Memory of Ecology. Lexification, Perception and Serenification in Robert Pogue Harrison. Image & Narrative : online magazine of the visual narrative, 23(1), 1-10. (Original work published 2008)


  • LENG1124: Reading English literature
  • LENG1224: Arthur to Austen: English literature before 1850
  • LENG1225: British cultural history
  • LELAL1284: Introduction aux humanités environnementales
  • LELAL1250: Critical methods for literary analysis
  • LENG2722: Shakespeare then & now
  • LENG2824: Animal narratives
  • LENG2872: Literature and climate change

Learning units for 2025

Label Code
Critical methods for literary analysis LELAL1250
Introduction to environmental humanities LELAL1284
Reading English literature LENG1124
Arthur to Austen: English Literature Before 1850 LENG1224
British cultural history LENG1225
Shakespeare Then &Now LENG2722
Animal narratives LENG2824
Literature and climate change LENG2872