Steven Bruso
Steven Bruso
Associate Professor, English
Endicott College School of Social Sciences, Communication, and Humanities
Contact
Academic Center , WAX 215
sbruso@endicott.edu
(978) 232-2173

Profile

Steven Bruso is an Associate 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 Delta.

Education

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`s monograph, Harde Bodies: Knightly Subjectivity and Violent Selfhood in Late Medieval England (Brill, forthcoming), 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 Literature, From Galaxies Far Away: Science Fiction Literature, Critical Reading & Writing I and II

Accomplishments

Appearances

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fordham University, 2017-2018.

Publications

  • Steven Bruso. (2023). 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.) Ethics in the Arthurian Legend, D.S Brewer, 173-197.
  • Steven Bruso. (2023). George R. R. Martin`s Muscular Medievalism: Masculinity, Violence, and Fantasy, Studies in Medievalism 32, 95-114.
  • Steven Bruso. (2017). Bodies Hardened for War: Knighthood in Fifteenth-Century England. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47(2), 255-277.