Bradley Irish

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