Rate My Professor Brian Glaser

Brian Glaser is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, where he has been teaching for twenty years. He currently serves as Director of the Disability Studies minor, which includes over sixty undergraduate students. Glaser holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before arriving at Chapman around 2005, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and taught at universities in Campeche, Lisbon, Guatemala City, and Düsseldorf.

His scholarly pursuits focus on poetics, environmental rhetoric, the global human rights movement, Taoism, and the relationship between poetry and social science. Glaser is the author of six books of poetry published by Shanti Arts—All the Hills (2019), Contradictions (2020), Difficult Joy (2021), Reparation Gate (2023), Unnamed Canyon (2024), and Mountains and the Sea (2025)—as well as more than twenty essays on poetics in journals including College Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Amerikastudien / American Studies, American Imago, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Selected recent scholarly works include “Stevens’s Path to ‘Lebensweisheitspielerei’” (Wallace Stevens Journal, 2024) and articles on ecocriticism, modernist poetry, and environmental anxiety archived in Chapman University’s Digital Commons. He has taught more than twenty courses in writing and literature, creating innovative offerings such as Writing about the Global Human Rights Movement, Environmental Rhetoric, Writing about Taoism, and Poetry and Social Science. Glaser’s excellence in teaching has been recognized with Chapman University’s highest faculty honor, the Valerie Scudder Award (2023), along with the Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019) and the Award for Curriculum Innovation in Sustainability Education (2012). Additional honors include fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Fulbright Commission.