Peter Brooks (writer)
Peter Preston Brooks (born 1938) 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 2003. 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. Education. Brooks obtained his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) from Harvard University. He also studied at University College, London as a Marshall Scholar, and at the University of Paris. Personal life. Brooks has five children. On 18 July 1959, Brooks married Margaret Elisabeth Waters. On 12 May 2001, Brooks married the law professor, author and commentator, Rosa Brooks. Rosa Brooks remarried.