Gerald L. Bruns is William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His current interests are in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, twentieth-century experimental fiction, and the various European and American art movements of the 1960s. His research and teaching have lately taken up such figures as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Emmanuel Levinas, and Michel Foucault. His books include his recent publication, On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (2006).

In progress is a book on the poets Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian. He has won NEH and Guggenheim fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.