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 Irish studies the literature and culture of 16th-century England, with a particular focus on the history of emotion. His first book, Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling, draws on literary analysis, archival research, and cross-disciplinary scholarship in the sciences and humanities to interrogate the socioliterary operation of emotion in the Tudor courtly sphere. His second book, Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion was published in March 2023. He is co-editor of Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2021) and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (2022).
He currently serves as incoming Co-Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Emotion Review. He is also the creator of Sources of Early Modern Emotion in English, 1500-1700 (www.earlymodernemotion.net), a collaborative project that documents primary and secondary sources related to the study of emotion in the early modern period.
His 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
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.
Books:
- 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:
- The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Articles/Chapters:
- “Jealousy in Early Modern England.” Studies in Philology, 2024. (Forthcoming)
- “Envy, Jealousy, and Emulation: The Poetics of Affective Rivalry in The Shepheardes Calender." Accepted by SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2023. (Forthcoming)
- “Close Reading: The Inveighing, Envying Martius in Coriolanus 3.3.94.” Shakespeare, 2023; published advance access: http://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2022.2150065
- “Envy, Leanness, and Julius Caesar.” Early Theatre 25.2 (2022): 67-82.
- “Envy, Beelzebub, and Paradise Lost.” Huntington Library Quarterly 85.2 (2022): 347-357.
- “Racial Disgust in Early Modern England: The Case of Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 67-82.
- “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" (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.
- “Solidarity as Ritual in the Late Elizabethan Court.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 121-135.
- “Introduction" (with Cora Fox and Cassie Miura). In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 1-17.
- “Envy in Early Modern England.” ELH 88.4 (2021): 845-878.
- “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.
- “The Varieties of Early Modern Envy and Jealousy: The Case of Obtrectation.” Modern Philology 117.1 (2019): 115-126.
- “'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.
- “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. Russell J. Leo, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 210-226.
- "Historicism and Universals." The Literary Universals Project. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. 2018. Online: https://literary-universals.uconn.edu/2016/09/20/literary-universals-and-historicism/
- "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 (2015): 412-32.
- "The Sidneys and Foreign Affairs, 1575-1578: An Unpublished Letter of Sir Henry Sidney." English Literary Renaissance 45 (2015): 90-119.
- "The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638." Modern Philology 112 (2014): 271-285.
- “The Rivalrous Emotions in Surrey's 'So Crewell Prison.’” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 53 (2014): 1-24.
- “Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method.” Renaissance Drama 41 (2013): 131-149.
- "‘Not cardinal but king’: Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician Diplomatic Imagination." In Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare. Ed. William T. Rossiter and Jason Powell. Burlington, VT: Ashgate: 2013. 85-99.
- "Libels and the Essex Rising." Notes and Queries 59.1 (2012): 87-89.
- “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.
- “Henry Howard, earl of Surrey." In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart. 3 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 2.511-516.
- “Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early English 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): 169-175.
Public-Facing Writing:
- "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
Course Number | Course Title |
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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 |
2019 Fall
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ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
ENG 321 | Shakespeare |