Bradley Irish

Biography
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 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.
Education
Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin
Research Interests
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.
Publications
Books:
- Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Articles/Chapters:
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“The Varieties of Early Modern Envy and Jealousy: The Case of Obtrectation.” Modern Philology, 2019. [Forthcoming]
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“'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.
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“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.
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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.
Courses
Summer 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 422 | Special Topics in Shakespeare |
ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 384 | Gender&Sexuality Lit/Culture |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Summer 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 422 | Special Topics in Shakespeare |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 394 | Special Topics |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 422 | Special Topics in Shakespeare |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 321 | Shakespeare |
ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 534 | Studies in Renaissance Lit |
ENG 791 | Seminar |