Benjamin Bertram
- Professor of English
Education
- PhD, Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1997
- MA, Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1994
- BA, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989
Benjamin Bertram is Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of interest include sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and culture, Shakespeare, ecocriticism, animal studies, science fiction, film studies, and critical theory. His most recent publications include “Richard of Gloucester’s Elemental Thinking” in Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature (Amsterdam UP, 2024); “Shakespeare and Creaturely Violence” in the Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals (Routledge Press, 2021); “Posthumous Community: Erasmus and the Dung Beetle” in Criticism 62:3 (2020), and his second monograph, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England (Routledge Press, 2018).
Education
- PhD, Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1997
- MA, Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1994
- BA, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989