Sascha Bru teaches modern literature and theory at KU Leuven, where he also runs the Graduate Program in Literary Studies. Bru has a broad interest in 19th- and 20th-century literature and (media) aesthetics, and has published widely on the poetics and politics of avant-garde and modernist writing. In recent years he has come to contemplate the relationship between the avant-garde and modernism on one hand and time and temporality on the other, in an attempt to explore alternative models for literary historiography derived from modernist and avant-garde experiments with time. With time on his hands Bru tries to spot the creatures that are his children.