He specializes in 20th and 21st century French & Francophone Studies, but his research tries to build bridges between cultures and disciplines, such as literary theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, history, and fine arts.
Dr. Brulotte has also published around 300 articles and book reviews, which appeared as chapters of books or in periodicals, in such international volumes and journals as Poétique, Revue des Sciences Humaines, Revue des Deux Mondes, L'Arc, Travaux de littérature, Revue d'esthétique, Médium, Atelier du Roman (France); Stanford French and Italian Studies, The French Review, Sites, The Comparatist, Etudes francophones, Nouvelles Études francophones (USA); Etudes Littéraires, Liberté, XYZ, Nuit Blanche, Les Ecrits, The University of Toronto Quarterly (Canada); Dialogues francophones (Romania); Paragraph (England), to name a few.
As a widely anthologized Francophone creative writer, he has published five collections of short stories including Le surveillant (translated as The Secret Voice), Ce qui nous tient (What Holds Us), Epreuves (Testing), La vie de biais (Life Sideways), La contagion du réel (Contagious Reality), a novel L'emprise (Double Exposure) and a play Le client (Music Maker), which received a major grant from the French Ministry of Culture and was premiered at the Avignon Drama Festival in France in 2001, before being restaged afterwards.
Some of his fiction works are available in mass paperback series and were adapted for cinema, television, stage and radio, as well as translated into several languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Serbian, Tamil (India), Romanian, and Hungarian.
Some were published in periodicals from various countries such as Cleo in Australia, Les Cahiers du Ru in Italy, Puerto del Sol in the US, Steaua in Romania, Knjizevne Novine in Serbia, Magyar Naplozi in Hungary, La Revue générale in Belgium, Brèves, NYX, Jungles, Harfang, Nouvelle Donne in France, Moebius, Possibles, XYZ, Châtelaine, Le Sabord' in Canada.
Concerning his works and his vision of literature, education and culture, he has given so far near 200 interviews, whether on television -including recently at Vox Television, Canada-; on radio, such as France-Bleu, Radio Ville-Marie, Radio-Canada on prime-time show by Joël Le Bigot, or on the US popular show Montel Across America; for periodicals, such as Encres vagabondes (France), Quebec Studies and Lingua Romana (USA), Gentlemen Quarterly, Le Petit Journal de Rome and Focus Magazine in Italy, Danas and Dvernik in Serbia, Dialogues francophones in Romania; as well as for scholarly books or Internet sites, including Playboy Magazine.
His works are attracting more and more critical attention every year: book reviews, articles, theses, and dissertations; they are also subject of courses at a number of colleges and universities around the world from New-Zealand to Morocco, as well as of communications and sessions at conferences.
A Romanian scholar, Margareta Gyurscik, has completed in 2014 a new 200-page monograph on his works, Gaëtan Brulotte ou la lucidité en partage.