Brian Daniel Willems
Title: Full Professor
Tuesday, 13.00-14.00
undergraduate
graduate
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.
Croatian Association for American Studies
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  ," was presented with the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.