Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin.[citation needed] She immigrated in 1941 to the United States and received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1950, her M.A. in Classics from Yale University in 1951, and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale in 1956. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College.
In her early years at St. John's, she was very close to Jacob Klein. After Klein died, Brann increasingly assumed his role as the defining figure of St. John's, the St. John's program, and the continuing dialogue with the Great Books represented by the program.
Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Mid 8th to Late 7th Century B.C.: Results of excavations conducted by the American school of classical studies at Athens (1962)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, and American Constitutionalism by Leo Paul S. de Alvarez, ed. (Berns, Laurence; Thurow, Glen E.; Brann, Eva; Anastaplo, George; contributors) (1976)
Paradoxes of Education in a Republic (1979)
The World of the Imagination (1992)
Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions by Patricia Cook (Editor), George Allan (Contributor), Donald PhillipVerene (Contributor), Alasdair MacIntyre (Contributor), J. B.Schneewind (Contributor), Lynn S.Joy (Contributor), Robert CummingsNeville (Contributor), Eva T. H.Brann (Contributor), George Kline (Contributor), John S.Rickard (Contributor), Stanley Rosen (Contributor)
The Past-Present: Selected Writings of Eva Brann (1997)
The Study of Time: Philosophical Truth and Human Consequences (Kritikos Professorship in the Humanities, 1999.)
What, Then, Is Time? (1999)
Introduction to His Monkey Wife or Married to a Chimp by John Collier (2000)
The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing (2001)
Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad (2002)
The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings (2004)
Open Secrets/Inward Prospects: Reflections on Word and Soul (2004)
Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know (2008)
Homage to Americans: Mile-High Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-Spanning Speculations (2010)
