Robert Balun

Job Title: Full-Time Lecturer

Office: Humanities 1032

Email: robert.balun@stonybrook.edu

Fall 2025 Office Hours:

T: 2:00pm – 3:30pm

Th: 2:00pm – 3:30pm

also available by appointment and on Zoom

 

Bio:

Robert Balun received his MFA in Poetry from The City College of New York, where he taught for ten years before joining the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. He is the author of two poetry collections, from The Operating System and Ursus Americanus Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, Prelude, Barrow Street, Apogee, Sonora Review, and others.  His first collection of scholarship, An Ethics of Thinking and Making in the Anthropocene: The Aesthetics of Disruption, is forthcoming from Routledge in 2025.  He also teaches poetry workshops with Brooklyn Poets.