Steven Bruso
Profile
Steven Bruso is an Assistant Professor of English at Endicott College. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Westfield State University, his Masters of Arts in English from Clark University, and his Doctor of Philosophy in English from Fordham University. His research focuses on Medieval and Early Modern literature, fantasy medievalism, gender, and violence. He is a faculty advisor to the Endicott chapter of Sigma Tau DeltaEducation
Fordham University
Doctor of Philosophy in English
2017
Clark University
Master of Arts in English
2008
Westfield State University
Bachelor of Arts in English
2006
Research
Professor Bruso is working on a book project that explores the social significance of developed male bodies to discourses of military culture and masculinity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and argues that representations of knightly physicality are the vehicle for expressing cultural anxieties about militarism.
Courses
Early British Literature, Early World Literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Literary Studies, Other Worlds: Fantasy Medievalism, Critical Reading & Writing I and II
Accomplishments
Appearances
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fordham University, 2017-2018.
Publications
- Steven Bruso. (2017). Bodies Hardened for War: Knighthood in Fifteenth-Century England. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47(2), 255-277.
- Steven Bruso. (2022, Forthcoming). Contesting Royal Power: The Ethics of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales. in Evelyn Meyer and Melissa Ridley Elmes (Eds.) Arthurian Ethics, Boydell & Brewer.
- Steven Bruso. (2022, Forthcoming). George R. R. Martin`s Muscular Medievalism: Masculinity, Violence, and Fantasy, Studies in Medievalism 32.
- Steven Bruso. (2015). The Sword and the Scepter: Mordred, Arthur, and the Dual Roles of Kingship in the Alliterative Morte Arthure. Arthuriana 25(2), 44-66.