Bruce W. Young
Bruce Young's main areas of emphasis in teaching and research are Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and literary theory and criticism. He also teaches courses on C. S. Lewis, world literature, and other topics. His research and writing on Shakespeare has focused on family life as experienced in Shakespeare's time and depicted in the plays. Besides Shakespeare and Lewis, Professor Young's passions include the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, a twentieth-century thinker whose ideas have many kinds of relevance to literary study. Among other things, Levinas discusses art, language, history, and culture, but above all "ethics," by which he means the unavoidable relationship each of us has with "the Other" (i.e., the other person). (BYU Faculty Profile)

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Web Site The Face of the Other
Personal blog.
http://faceofother.blogspot.com/
Also Known As Bruce Young
Birth Date November 3, 1950
Birth Place Roosevelt, Utah
Spouse Margaret Blair Young
Children Four (Kaila, Robert, Julia, Michael)
Education B.A. from Brigham Young University in English, 1975. Minor: French.
M.A. from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature, 1976.
Ph.D. from Harvard University in English and American Language and Literature, 1983.
Career Instructor of French, Language Training Mission, Provo, Utah, 1972-1974.
Teaching Assistant, English Department, Brigham Young University, 1975.
Teaching Fellow, English Department, Harvard University, 1978-1981.
Instructor, English Department, Harvard University, 1981-1983.
Assistant Professor, English Department, Brigham Young University, 1983-1988.
Associate Professor, English Department, Brigham Young University, 1988-present. Including one year (1993-1994) as an exchange professor at BYU-Hawaii.

Works by Bruce W. Young
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YearGenre
"The Holy Cords Too Intrinse to Unloose": Mormon Families in Life and Fiction2002Criticism
Mormons and the American Literati 1820-1860Criticism
The Miracle of Faith, The Miracle of Love: Some Personal Reflections1986Personal Essay
Sunday Afternoon1973Poetry
[Review of] C. S. Lewis: The Man and His Message edited by Andrew C. Skinner and Robert L. Millet2000Review
The Old Man and His Rest: A Fairy Tale1987Short Story






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