Bryan Conn

Bryan Conn is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of North Texas (UNT). Previously, he served as a lecturer in the English department at Case Western Reserve University and taught composition at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on twentieth-century African-American and American literature, with secondary interests in African diaspora intellectuals, critical theory, and psychoanalysis—particularly object relations theory. He is currently developing a book project examining interracial social relations and intersubjective psychical dynamics in late modernist fiction by African-American and white American authors.

Dr. Conn’s scholarly work on James Baldwin’s Another Country has garnered awards from prominent academic organizations. His teaching repertoire includes courses on trauma representation in African-American and American Indian literature, existential philosophy’s intersection with diaspora literature, and the cultural significance of robots in global literature and film.

• Key Awards:
• Essay Prize (Northeast Modern Language Association LGBTQ Caucus)
• Essay Prize (Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center)

His academic trajectory reflects extensive experience in composition pedagogy, spanning institutions like Case Western Reserve and Johns Hopkins before joining UNT.