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prof. dr. sc. Brian Daniel Willems

Title: Full Professor

Location:
207
Consultations:

Tuesday, 13.00-14.00

Public phone number:
021545554
Department:
Department of English Language and Literature

Teaching

undergraduate

graduate

Biography

Dr. sc. Brian Willems is a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Split, where he teaches literature, and at the Academy of Arts in Split, where he teaches film theory, and the director of the Studia Mediterranea center. His books are: Anger and Change in Korean American Literature (Palgrave, 2025), Sham Ruins: A User's Guide (Routledge, 2022), Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Shooting the Moon (Zero Books, 2015), Facticity, Poverty and Clones (Atropos Press, 2010), Hopkins and Heidegger (Continuum, 2009), and the novel The Surviving Cells (Les Fugitives, 2026) and the novella Henry, Henry (Zero Books, 2017). He is the co-editor of Global Manifestos for the 21st Century (eds. Nicol Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Žižek, and Brian Willems, Routledge, 2022) and Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time (eds. Aleksandar Mijatović and Brian Willems, Brill, 2021), among others. His essays have been published in: Textual Practice, Science Fiction Studies, Film-Philosophy, Umjetnost riječi, Science Fiction Film and Television, Los Angeles Review of Books, The African American Novel in the Early 21st Century (Brill, 2025), Economic Science Fictions (Goldsmiths Press, 2017), After the Human (Cambridge University Press, 2020), From A to <A> (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), among others. He has worked as a visiting professor in the USA, Middle East, Northern Africa, Great Britain, and continental Europe. He has worked as a curator on multimedia exhibitions in Croatia and Slovenia.

Scientific publications (CroRIS)

Willems, Brian
Palgrave Macmillan Cham, (2025) , doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-84865-0
Willems, Brian; Brahović, Gianna
Acta neophilologica, 58 (2025) str. 5-22, doi: 10.4312/an.58.2.5-22
Willems, Brian
Anafora, XI (2024) str. 195-198
Zug effect - speculative realism and science fiction
Willems, Brian Daniel
Multimedijalni institut; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, (2024)
Willems, Brian Daniel
The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century, Brill, (2024) str. 212-230, doi: 10.1163/9789004710733_012
Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A; Maiwald, Florian; Camargo Castillo, Javier; Willems, Brian Daniel; T. Ximenes, Fernando A.; Medina Polo, Simone A.; Salas, Gonzalo; Katkowski, Krzysztof; Ayala-Colqui, Jesús; Perunović, Andrea
Bajo palabra (Madrid), 2 (2024) str. 143-173, doi: 10.15366/bp2024.37.042
Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.; Medina Polo, Simone A.; Perunović, Andrea; Scholten, Hernán; Camargo-Castillo, Javier; León, Alberto; Salas, Gonzalo; Maiwald, Florian; Letelier S., Antonio; Willems, Brian Daniel; Vergara Muñoz, Francisco Alejandro; Castillo Villapudua, Karla; Ayala-Colqui, Jesús
Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofia, 41 (2024) str. 405-413, doi: 10.5209/ashf.88951
Willems, Brian Daniel
Anafora, XI (2024) str. 195-198
Willems, Brian Daniel; Žižek, Slavoj; Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.; Perunović, Andrea; Salas, Gonzalo; Balotol, Ruben Jr.; Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomas
Bajo palabra (Madrid), (2023) str. 37-56, doi: 10.15366/bp2023.32.002
Willems, Brian Daniel; Žižek, Slavoj; Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.; Perunović, Andrea; Salas, Gonzalo; Ayala- Colqui, Jesús; Balotol, Ruben Jr.
Las Torres de Lucca, 12 (2023) str. 201-210, doi: 10.5209/ltdl.84516
Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.; Medina Polo, Simone A.; Kim, Wanyoung; Pospihalj, Dorotea; Bristow, Daniel; Willems, Brian Daniel; Salas, Gonzalo; Letelier, Antonio; Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás; Vergara Muñoz, Francisco Alejandro; Ayala-Colqui, Jesús
Res publica, 26 (2023) str. 279-290, doi: 10.5209/rpub.92131
Willems, Brian Daniel
Revista de humanidades de Valparaíso, (2023) str. 129-141, doi: 10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp129-141
Willems, Brian Daniel
Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles, and Future Change, Routledge, (2023) str. 200-206
Willems, Brian Daniel
Psychoanalysis Between Philosophy and Politics, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, (2023) str. 377-384
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu; Multimedijalni kulturni centar Split, (2023)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Umjetnost riječi, 67 (2023) str. 39-57, doi: 10.22210/ur.2023.067.1/03
Intersectionalities of the Left and Right in Latin America and Europe. An exploration of contemporary political processes
Willems, Brian Daniel; Žižek, Slavoj; Barria-Asenjo, Nicol; Balotol, Ruben; Salas, Gonzalo; Ayala-Colqui; Jesús
ÍCONOS: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 27 (2023) str. 157-176, doi: 10.17141/iconos.77.2023.5771
Filozofski fakultet u Splitu, (2023)
Routledge, (2023)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Routledge, (2022)
Willems, Brian Daniel
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020, Wiley-Blackwell, (2022) str. 1-5, doi: 10.1002/9781119431732.ecaf0175
FOR COSMETIC CHANGE: YONGSOO PARK'S BOY GENIUS
Willems, Brian Daniel
Književna smotra : časopis za svjetsku književnost, 54 (2022) str. 23-29
Willems, Brian Daniel
Acta neophilologica, 55 (2022) str. 193-208, doi: 10.4312/an.55.1-2.193-208
Forensic Finance, or Blood into Algorithms: Richard Morgan and Gildo Bavčević
Willems, Brian Daniel
Ekonomija i književnost/Economy and Literature, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, (2022) str. 132-153
Willems, Brian Daniel
Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time: Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures, Brill, (2021) str. 25-38, doi: 10.1163/9789004503144_003
Brill, (2021)
Willems, Brian Daniel
International Journal of Korean Humanities and Social Sciences, 7 (2021) str. 37-60, doi: 10.14746/kr.2021.07.02
The mayors of Split (1882-1918): life and recollections
Čipčić, Marijan
Muzej grada Splita, (2021)
Willems, Brian Daniel
After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, (2020) str. 192-205, doi: 10.1017/9781108874427.014
Willems, Brian Daniel
Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from electronic book review, Bloomsbury Publishing, (2020) str. 305-313
Willems, Brian
Acta neophilologica, 53 (2020) str. 101-118, doi: 10.4312/an.53.1-2.101-118
Hrvatsko filološko društvo, (2019)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Cross-Cultural Studies Review,Cross cultural studies review, 1 (2019) str. 231-233
Willems, Brian Daniel
Foundation : The International Review of Science Fiction,Foundation, 48 (2019) str. 126-127
Splitski gradonačelnici (1882.-1918.): život i uspomene
Čipčić, Marijan
Muzej grada Splita, (2019)
Willems, Brian Daniel ; Ryle, Simon
Umjetnost riječi : časopis za znanost o književnosti,Umjetnost riječi, 63 (2019) str. 149-159, doi: 10.22210/ur.2019.063.3_4.01
Ante Trumbić - Patricij s Lučca
Čipčić, Marijan ; Perko Kerum, Darka ; Dukić, Josip
Muzej grada Splita, (2019)
Willems, Brian Daniel ; Jerončić, Edita
Acta neophilologica, 51 (2018) str. 5-15, doi: 10.4312/an.51.1-2.5-15
Willems, Brian Daniel
Textual practice, 32 (2018) str. 163-184, doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2016.1252791
Willems, Brian Daniel
Science-fiction studies, 45 (2018) str. 146-160, doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.45.1.0146
Willems, Brian Daniel
Umjetnost riječi : časopis za znanost o književnosti,Umjetnost riječi, 62 (2018) str. 51-70
Science Fiction as Philosophy
Willems, Brian Daniel ; Jerić, Ante
Znanstvena fantastika kao filozofija,(2018)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Economic Science Fictions, Goldsmiths Press ; MIT Press, (2018) str. 73-92
Willems, Brian Daniel
Edinburgh University Press, (2017)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, Routledge, (2017) str. 109-123
Willems, Brian
New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed, Routledge, (2017) str. 146-163
Willems, Brian Daniel
Film-philosophy, 21 (2017) str. 78-94, doi: 10.3366/film.2017.0032
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu ; Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, (2017)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, (2016) str. 227-240
Willems, Brian Daniel
Reality Unbound: New Departures in Science Fiction Cinema, Bertz ; Gustav Fischer Verlag, (2016) str. 147-159
The Sounds of Space: Real-World Science Fiction Sounds and Unexplainable Noises
Willems, Brian Daniel
Die Zukunft ist jetzt: Science-Fiction-Kino als audio-visueller Entwurf von Geschichte(n), Räumen und Klängen, Bertz ; Gustav Fischer Verlag, (2016) str. 152-162
Willems, Brian Daniel
Science fiction film and television, 9 (2016) str. 159-179, doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2016.9.1
Willems, Brian Daniel, Gilić, Ivana
Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, 8 (2015) str. 37-52
Willems, Brian Daniel
Zero Books, (2015)
The Collection of Arms of the Split City Museum
Mrkonjić, Jelena ; Buljubašić, Eni ; Willems, Brian
2012,(2012)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Artus, 33 (2012) str. 58-59
Willems, Brian Daniel
On Blinking, Uitgeverij The Hague & Tirana, (2012) str. 81-154
Willems, Brian Daniel
Video Vortex Reader II, Institute of Network Cultures (INC), (2011) str. 293-305
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, (2011)
Willems, Brian Daniel
The First Ten Years of English Studies in Split, Sveučilište u Splitu, (2011) str. 283-297
Willems, Brian Daniel
Pierre Schaeffer: mediArt, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, (2011) str. 61-68
Willems, Brian Daniel
Belgrade English Language & Literature Studies, 2 (2010) str. 235-250
Willems, Brian Daniel
Artus, 30 (2010) str. 27-27
Willems, Brian Daniel
From A to -A-: Keywords in Markup, University of Minnesota Press, (2010) str. 81-97
Willems, Brian Daniel
Atropos Press, (2010)
Willems, Brian Daniel
Artus, 29 (2010) str. 24-27
Willems, Brian Daniel
Artus, 26 (2009) str. 32-32
Willems, Brian Daniel
Artus, 27 (2009) str. 92-99
Willems, Brian Daniel
Reconsidering Conventions: Essays on Language and Literature,(2009) str. 221-235
Willems, Brian Daniel
Continuum International Publishing Group, (2009)
Willems, Brian
Symposium (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy), 12 (2008) str. 213-216
Willems, Brian Daniel
Artus, 23 (2008) str. 22-25
Willems, Brian
Artus, 21 (2008) str. 56-59
Willems, Brian Daniel
Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, Wiley-Blackwell, (2008) str. 87-98
Willems, Brian Daniel
Poiesis, 10 (2008) str. 40-52
Willems, Brian
Electronic book review, 1 (2008)
Willems, Brian
Artus, 20 (2007) str. 10-13
Willems, Brian
Artus, 19 (2007) str. 52-53
Willems, Brian Daniel
Language and Identity, Hrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku (HDPL), (2007) str. 711-721
Willems, Brian Daniel
Language and Media, Hrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku (HDPL), (2006) str. 789-798

Projects (CroRIS)

Science memberships

Croatian Association for American Studies 

Awards and acknowledgments

2023, Best Scientist Award for the Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 

University of Split

2022, Best Scientist Award for the Humanities, University of Split

2019, Best Scientist Award for the Humanities, University of Split

2011, NajProfesora Student-given award for best professor at the Faculty of Philosophy

2010, From A to <A>: Keywords in Markup, featuring the essay "An Accidental Imperative: 

The Menacing Nothing of &nbsp," was presented with the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.