About Frans de Bruyn Frans De Bruyn is Professor of English and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. Books by Frans de Bruyn Comedy and Crisis Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720 edited by Joyce Goggin & Frans de Bruyn The Culture of the Seven Years' War Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World edited by Frans de Bruyn & Shaun Regan