Adam C. Bradford
Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs; Professor of English
Office: Museum Building 401
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.