Bradley Irish
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Phone: 480-965-4642
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Ross-Blakley Hall 225 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Bradley J. Irish (bradleyjirish.com) studies the literature and culture of Renaissance England, with a particular focus on both the history of emotion and the emerging field of early modern neurodiversity studies.
He is the author of Emotion and the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (2018), Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (2023), The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities (2024), The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature (2025), and Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions (2025), and is the co-editor of Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2021), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (2022), and the forthcoming Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature.
He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Emotion Review. He is also the creator of literaryneurodiversity.org and earlymodernemotion.net.
His other research interests include: Tudor political and cultural history; emotions in early modern culture; Henrician literature and culture; Renaissance poetry, especially Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Spenser; the Elizabethan courtier poets; Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare; the revenge tragedy tradition; the stoic tradition in Renaissance literature; early modern manuscript culture; paleography and archival research.
Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin
early modern neurodiversity studies; emotions in early modern culture; Henrician literature and culture; Renaissance poetry, especially Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Spenser; the Elizabethan courtier poets; Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare; the revenge tragedy tradition; the stoic tradition in Renaissance literature; early modern manuscript culture; paleography and archival research.
Books:
- Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions. New York: Palgrave, 2025.
- The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature. New York: Routledge, 2025.
- The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2023.
- Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Edited Collections/Issues:
- Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature. Co-edited with Bridget M. Bartlett and Laura Seymour. Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, expected publication 2026.
- "Literature and Emotion." Special Issue of Emotion Review, 16.2 (2024).
- The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Co-edited with Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Cora Fox and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Articles/Chapters:
- "Early Modern Neurodiversity: A Preliminary Research Agenda." Co-written with Bridget M. Bartlett. ELH (2025). [forthcoming]
- “Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. [forthcoming]
- “What’s in a Name: Can ‘Universality’ Be Resuscitated?” Style 58.3 (2024): 321-325.
- “Negative Affect to Positive Resistance: Indignation in Césaire’s Une Tempête." In The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literatures, ed. Jean-François Vernay, Donald R. Wehrs, and Isabelle Wentworth. New York: Routledge, 2024. 258-71.
- "Jealousy in Early Modern England." Studies in Philology 121.3 (2024): 432-463.
- “A Pre-Darwinian Account of the Facial Expression of Emotion: Thomas Wright’s The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604).” History of Psychology 27.3 (2024): 292-96.
- “Envy, Jealousy, and Emulation: Affective Rivalry in The Shepheardes Calender." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 62.2 (2024): 271-300.
- “Boundaries and Disgust in The Duchess of Malfi.” Review of English Studies 75.319 (2024): 184-197.
- “Just How Remarkable was the ‘Jealous Moor’? Othello, Jealousy, and Early Modern Racial Stereotypes. Shakespeare (2024). DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2024.2304029.
- “Close Reading: The Inveighing, Envying Martius in Coriolanus 3.3.94." Shakespeare 19.3 (2023): 377-386.
- “Envy, Beelzebub, and Paradise Lost.” Huntington Library Quarterly 85.2 (2022): 347-357.
- “Social Reception.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 317-327.
- “Literary Feelings: Understanding Emotions.” Co-written with Patrick Colm Hogan. In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-11.
- “Racial Disgust in Early Modern England: The Case of Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 224-245.
- “Envy, Leanness, and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.” Early Theatre 25.2 (2022): 67-82.
- “Envy in Early Modern England.” ELH 88.4 (2021): 845-878.
- “Solidarity as Ritual in the Late Elizabethan Court: Faction, Emotion, and the Essex Circle.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 121-135.
- "Introduction." Co-written with Cora Fox and Cassie M. Miura. Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 1-17.
- “A Strategic Compromise: Universality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Case for Modal Emotions in History of Emotion Research.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 4.2 (2020): 231-251.
- “‘Something After’?: Hamlet and Dread.” In Hamlet and Emotions, ed. Paul Megna,Bríd Phillips, and R.S. White. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 229-249.
- “The Varieties of Early Modern Envy and Jealousy: The Case of Obtrectation.” Modern Philology 117.1 (2019): 115-126.
- “Fulke Greville the Courtier: Courting the Ghosts of Sidney and Essex.” In The Measure of the Mind: Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance, ed. Russ Leo, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 210-226.
- “Historicism and Universals.” The Literary Universals Project. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. 2018.
- "Coriolanus and the Poetics of Disgust.” Shakespeare Survey 69 (2016): 198-215.
- "Friendship and Frustration: Counter-Affect in The Letters of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 57.4 (2015): 412-432.
- "The Sidneys and Foreign Affairs, 1575-1578: An Unpublished Letter of Sir Henry Sidney." English Literary Renaissance 45.1 (2015): 90-119.
- "The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638." Modern Philology 112.1 (2014): 271-285.
- “The Rivalrous Emotions in Surrey's 'So Crewell Prison.’” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54.1 (2014): 1-24.
- "'Not Cardinal, but King:' Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician Diplomatic Imagination." Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, ed. Jason Powell and William T. Rossiter. Burlington: Ashgate, 2013. 85-99.
- “Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method.” Renaissance Drama 41.1-2 (2013): 131-149.
- "Libels and the Essex Rising." Notes and Queries 59.1 (2012): 87-89.
- “Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart. 3 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 2:511-516.
- “Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492).” Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (2011): 79-114.
- “Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama.” Early Theatre 12.2 (2009): 117-134.
- “The Secret Chamber and Other Suspect Places: Materiality, Space, and the Fall of Catherine Howard.” Early Modern Women 4 (2009): 169-173.
Public-Facing Writing:
- “Shakespeare Knew What Modern Science Tells Us: Disability Discrimination is Fueled by Disgust.” Nursing Clio, August 9, 2023. https://nursingclio.org/2023/08/09/shakespeare-knew-what-modern-science-tells-us- disability-discrimination-is-fueled-by-disgust/
- "How to Make Room for Neurodivergent Professors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2023. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-make-room-for neurodivergent-professors
- “Corpse Medicine.” The Collation (Folger Shakespeare Library), January 17, 2023. https://collation.folger.edu/2023/01/corpse-medicine
- “Why Are So Many People Delighted by Disgusting Things?” The Conversation, October 21, 2022. https://theconversation.com/why-are-so-many-people-delighted-by-disgusting-things-191053
Courses
2025 Spring
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ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
2024 Fall
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ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
ENG 384 | Gender&Sexuality Lit/Culture |
2024 Summer
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
2024 Spring
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ENG 384 | Gender&Sexuality Lit/Culture |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
2023 Fall
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
2023 Spring
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ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
ENG 206 | Intro to Literary Studies |
2022 Fall
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
ENG 384 | Gender&Sexuality Lit/Culture |
2022 Summer
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
2022 Spring
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ENG 422 | Special Topics in Shakespeare |
ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
2021 Fall
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
ENG 384 | Gender&Sexuality Lit/Culture |
2021 Summer
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
2020 Fall
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
ENG 422 | Special Topics in Shakespeare |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
ENG 394 | Special Topics |