Charlotte H. Bruner (May 8, 1917 – December 4, 1999) was an American scholar who was one of the first in the United States to write extensively about, and translate the work of, African women writers.
Bruner joined the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures as a professor of French at Iowa State College in 1954 and retired from the university in 1987 after more than three decades of teaching and research.
[2] As a scholar, she dedicated her career to writing about and publishing translations of literature by African women, helping to create a wider public for these writers.
[4] She has been called an outstanding pioneer in the fields of both African studies and world literature, pursuing her studies at a time when American academics were largely uninterested in African literature and taught mainly European classics.
[2] From 1980 to 1986, Bruner cohosted (with David) a weekly series of radio programs, First Person Feminine, in which she read from and discussed international women's literature.