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Bryan Counter

Academic Division: Arts & Humanities
Bryan Counter is an adjunct lecturer at Babson College. He has also taught at Framingham State University, Western New England University, and Endicott College. His main research interest is aesthetics and aesthetic experience in literature and philosophy. His book Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk was published in 2025 by Anthem Press. He's currently co-editing (with James Dutton) a volume titled Quiet Proust (under contract with Bloomsbury) and working on a book project provisionally titled A Window onto Life: Maurice Blanchot, Weird Fiction, and Wonder. He co-hosts Authors Die Twice, a podcast about video games and aesthetic theory, with Nathan Wainstein.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Counter, B. (2025). ‘Stopping the flow of time’: Wonder and Writing Experience in Rachel Cusk. Vol: 11, Issue: 1, Page: 48-65. CounterText.
  • Counter, B., Wainstein, N. (2024). Mere Light. Vol: 38, Issue: 9, Page: 1357-1379. Textual Practice.
  • Counter, B. (2024). Reading, Dreaming, Writing in Proust and Cixous. Vol: 14, Page: 48-65. S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique.
  • Counter, B. (2024). The Absence of the Book: Preparing, Researching, Reading with Barthes. Vol: 10, Page: 10-28. Barthes Studies.
  • Counter, B. (2023). Spiralling Relations: Barthes, Kant, Balzac. Vol: 9, Page: 26-44. Barthes Studies.
  • Counter, B. (2021). Intoxication: Reading Between Proust and Barthes. Vol: 7, Page: 85-109. Barthes Studies.
  • Counter, B. (2020). ‘Pour cet état si particulier’: Disinterest and the Impersonal Resonance of Aesthetic Experience. Vol: 49, Issue: 3, Page: 19-36. SubStance.

Books

  • Counter, B. (2025). Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk. Anthem Press.

Book Chapters

  • Counter, B. (2025). "For the space of an instant": Beckett on the Subject of Thought: Beckett and Nature. Page: 51-66. Bloomsbury. link
  • Counter, B. (2022). 'Peut-être aurais-je dû penser': Research and Event in Proust: Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations. Routledge.