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Ben De Bruyn

Professeur
ben.debruyn@uclouvain.be

SSH/FIAL Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres (FIAL)

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

  • Expertise :
  • contemporary literature
  • literary history
  • ecocriticism
  • environmental humanities
2025
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248661


2024
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/275588


2023
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/275589


2022
Chapitre de livre

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

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248639


2021
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248640


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248641


2020
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248644


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248647


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248645


Monographie

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

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248643


2018
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248770


2017
Chapitre de livre

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.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248651


Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248649


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248650


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248769


2016
Monographie

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

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248773


Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248654


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248655


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248771


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248766


2015
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248656


Chapitre de livre

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).

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248667


2013
Monographie

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.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/61774


Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248767


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248669


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248657


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/61767


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248658


Chapitre de livre

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.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248676


2012
Monographie

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

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248774


Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248772


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248671


2010
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248775


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248660


2008
Article de journal

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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248764


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)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/248659


  • 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

Unités d'enseignement pour 2026

Libellé Code
Critical methods for literary analysis LELAL1250
Littératures, arts et écologie 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