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Adam C. Bradford

Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs; Professor of English

Office: Museum Building 401

208-282-2490

adambradford@isu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Iowa

M.A. Brigham Young University

B.A. University of Utah

Dr. Adam Bradford joined ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø in the position of Dean of Graduate Studies. He then moved over to Academic Affairs as acting Provost and eventually took over that position full-time. Since this is a full-time administrative position, he does not currently teach for the English and Philosophy department nor does he do general advising for our program.

Book

Communities of Death: Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning, University of Missouri Press, 2014.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary.”  A Companion to American Poetry, edited by Mary Balkun, Paul Jaussen, and Jeffrey Gray, Wiley Blackwell, 2022.

"A Critical Congeries: Forty-Five Theses for Poe," Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation 52 (2019), 8-18.

“Any Peculiar Taste or Prepossession”?: Poe and the Antebellum Registers of Authorial Interpretation. In Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation 51 (2018).

“Embodying the Book: Mourning for the Masses in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps.” Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies 21 (2016).

“The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.” Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices. Eds. Mary De Jong with Paula Bernat Bennett. (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2013), 300-319.

Awards/Honors

James W. Gargano Award, Poe Studies Association, 2018.

Faculty of Distinction Award Nominee, Broward President’s Community Council, Florida Atlantic University; 2011.