Beatrice Bradley
310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E.
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Beatrice Bradley is assistant professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research and teaching interests include early modern literature; critical theory (with a focus in gender and sexuality studies); classical receptions; and health humanities. Her work examines the intersection of embodied experience with the organizing structures of literary form.
Professor Bradley is on research leave at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the 2024 – 25 academic year. As a long-term fellow at the Library, she is completing her first book (The Erotics of Sweat: Residues of Embodiment in the Early Modern World), which argues that poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries turn to sweat as a signifying marker of the human. This project rethinks narratives of desire, identity, and embodiment.
Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor Bradley taught at Muhlenberg College and the University of Chicago, where she received her PhD in English Literature and completed a postdoctoral fellowship.
Educational Background
- PhD: English Literature, University of Chicago
- MA: English Literature, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- BA: English Literature (Creative Writing) and Classical Languages, Vanderbilt University
Specialties
- Early Modern Literature
- Critical Theory
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Histories of Embodiment
- Health Humanities