Brett Brehm

Brett Brehm is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at William & Mary, within the School of Arts & Sciences. His interdisciplinary research bridges literature, visual arts, technology, sound studies, and urban life in transatlantic contexts between France and the United States.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University and an M.A. in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, reflecting his strong foundation in humanistic and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Brehm's research centers on the sensory and technological dimensions of modernity, particularly how sound, vision, and urban environments intersect in literary and artistic production. His work explores avant-garde movements, media archaeology, and transatlantic intellectual exchanges, with a focus on figures like Charles Cros and Édouard Manet. He examines how emerging technologies shape aesthetic forms and cultural imagination in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

His recent publications reveal a consistent engagement with media environments, audiovisual experimentation, and the cultural history of technology. Key themes across his work include sensory modernity, the poetics of sound, media futurism, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and art.

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Brehm teaches courses on Paris, urban theory, the avant-garde, and writing. He advises no students listed in the source material and has not disclosed grant activity. He has no known lab or research team affiliations mentioned.