Peter brooks biography

Writer and academic

For other people named Peter Brooks, see Peter Brooks (disambiguation).

Peter Preston Brooks (born )^[1] is an American literary theorist who is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew W.

Mellon Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He has been Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. Among his many accomplishments is the founding of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.

He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in ^[2] Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis. He was influenced by fellow Yale scholar, Paul de Man, to whom his book Reading for the Plot is dedicated.^[3] His book Seduced By Story was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle a