The University of Texas at Austin

Faculty Member, English

Associate Professor

Liberal Arts

About

Brian A. Bremen teaches American Literature, Modern Poetry, and Literary Theory, with a special interest in theories of Modernism.  His book, William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Cultural  (1993), looks at the ways in which Williams’s roles as both a doctor and a poet coincide to revise both poetic and medical conventions in a “cultural diagnostics” that seeks to both analyze and “cure” modern culture.  A fan of all kinds of music, he is currently working on a book that examines the ways in which popular music and populist politics intersect in the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as on one tentatively entitled, What Was Modernism (And Does It Still Matter)?

An avid surfer of the Internet since 1992, Bremen is presently archiving graphic, audio, and video material to aid in the instruction of large lecture sections of E316K: Masterworks in American Literature, and experimenting with ways in which to incorporate web-based instruction in large lecture classes.

Awards and Honors: Bremen has been the recipient of the Marilla D. Svinicki Burnt Orange Apple Award (2007), the Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship and the Waggener Centennial Teaching Fellowship (2005), the W. O. S. Sutherland Award for Teaching Excellence in Sophomore Literature (2003), the Texas Excellence Teaching Award for Professors in the College of Liberal Arts (2001), a Dean's Fellowship in The College of Liberal Arts (2000-2001), and the Harry Ransom Research Center Ransom Fellowship (2000-2001).