Bruce Boeckel, Ph.D.
Humanities Division Chair
McDonald Hall, Room 208
Telephone: 559-453-7141
Fax: 559-453-5558
Email: bruce.boeckel@fresno.edu
What programs do you teach in?
- English
Education
- B.A., German & French, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, 1981 - magna cum laude with a certificate in translation
- M.A., comparative literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1984
- Ph.D., comparative literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993
Share why you teach at FPU
- Teaching at FPU gives me the opportunity to help students grow both in their knowledge of the world and in their Christian faith. I am excited about the possibilities involved in my own field, writing and literature. I want to help students develop the open sensibility and the critical thinking that are crucial to understanding literature. I believe that Christian higher education should provide training in and modelling of these intellectual virtues.
Scholarly interests
- Comparative literature
- British, German, and French literature of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Creative writing
Publications
- Enlightenment’s Double Bind: Utopia and Terror in the Mythic Speculations of the French Philosphes (working title for current book project)
- “Reading Jane Eyre with American Plain Janes: Religious Enthusiasm and Christian Critique in British Romantic and Victorian Literature,” in Word in the Classroom: Best Practices of Faith Integration in English, edited by Jamie Dessart and Brad Gambill, published by Abiline Christian University Press, 2009
- “Landscaping the Field of Discourse: Political Slant and Poetic Slope in Sir John Denham’s ‘Cooper’s Hill,’” in Papers on Language and Literature, 1998
