Bruce Kawin taught at CU-Boulder from 1975 to 2015 in the English Department and the Film Studies Program. He received an AB in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia (1967), an MFA in Creative Writing and Filmmaking from Cornell (1969), and a PhD in Modern British and American Literature and Film Aesthetics from Cornell (1970). He wrote several books of film and literary theory, including Telling It Again and Again, Mindscreen, and The Mind of the Novel.
He also wrote three books on Faulkner’s screenplays and two film textbooks. Every few years he updated a widely used textbook, A Short History of the Movies (co-authored by the late Gerald Mast). Shortly before retiring, he also published a critical study entitled Horror and the Horror Film; two books of poems, Love If We Can Stand It and Starting Over; and a collection of his Selected Film Essays and Interviews.
He taught courses in film history, film theory, screenwriting, horror in literature and film, 20th century British and American literature (poetry, prose, and drama), and comparative literature, with special interests in William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, narrative structure, modern poetry, and the international modern novel.