Name Peter Brooks Role Writer | ||
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Reading for the plot, Troubling Confessions, Realist vision, Henry James Goes to P, Psychoanalysis and storytelling Similar People Paul Gewirtz, Alex Woloch, Henry James | ||
Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He has been Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. Among his many accomplishments is the founding of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis. He was influenced by fellow Yale scholar, Paul de Man, to whom his book Reading for the Plot is dedicated.
Education
Brooks obtained his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) from Harvard University. He also studied at University College, London as a Marshall Scholar, and at the University of Paris.