Bram Dijkstra is a professor of English literature. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego in 1966, and taught there until he retired and became an emeritus (retired professor who still holds the title) in 2000.
He is the author of seven books on literary and artistic subjects. These include:
- Cubism, Stieglitz and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams (1969);
- Georgia O'Keeffe and the Eros of Place (1998);
- Expressionism in America (2001)
- Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siècle Culture (1986);
- Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood (1996),
