Fellow 2023/2024 VINCENT BRUYÈRE
I am associate professor of French and affiliate faculty in the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University in Atlanta. I earned my PhD at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2009. Before joining Emory, I held academic positions at the Pennsylvania State University (USA) and Algoma University (Canada). In 2012, I was visiting research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra.
My research draws on literary theory, visual culture, and the history of the body in an effort to assess the impact of end-time scenarios on modes of humanistic inquiry, especially on modes of valuing the historical record. I am the author of two books, La différence Francophone: De Jean Léry à Patrick Chamoiseau (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012) and Perishability Fatigue: Forays in Environmental Loss and Decay (Columbia University Press, 2018). My third book, Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in September 2023. In Heidelberg, I will work on the third volume of the trilogy I started with Perishability Fatigue.