Steven Bruhm
Professor
BA, Mount St. Vincent University, 1982
BA Honours, Mount St. Vincent University, 1985
MA, Dalhousie University, 1986
PhD, McGill University, 1992
519 661-2111 ext. 85837
sbruhm2@uwo.ca
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Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor in English
Past President, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
Office Hours: TBA
While my research career has taken me through a number of areas--Romantic fiction, gothic aesthetics, queer narcissism, sexual children, dance--all of my projects are welded together by an interest in the body. Bodies in pain, bodies in pleasure, bodies in choreography, bodies in view: all are sites of cultural (and perhaps extra-cultural) meaning that I explore in my work. It's for this reason that I'm so drawn to the gothic. In its depiction of bodies in extreme situations, the gothic allows me to draw together various theories, texts, and historical moments to consider what remains constant in our bodies’ internal mechanisms, and how such consistency butts up against the specifics of a particular cultural production. In my current work on dance, I consider how the body's reactions to pain come to frame choreographies of mortality from the Romantic ballet to Michael Jackson.
