New Professors in English
We are excited to announce that two new colleagues have joined the Department of English faculty. Beatrice Bradley and Tosin Gbogi will began teaching in fall 2025. Welcome!
Beatrice Bradley's 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 2024-2025 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 16th and 17th 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.
Tosin Gbogi's interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on African and African diaspora literatures, popular culture, and discourse-oriented sociolinguistics. Gbogi's monograph Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance (Oxford University Press) is forthcoming in 2025. Drawing on a broad array of literary and expressive cultural material, including poetry, music, and visual arts, he studies the processes through which artistic productions recast the extant modalities of social life in Africa. His work on African poetry has animated other concerns, including decolonial metapoetics, place and alterity, verbal art and politics, and race and migration. He has published the poetry collections the tongues of a shattered s-k-y (Blackgraphics) and locomotifs and other songs (Noirledge). Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor Gbogi taught at Marquette University and Adekunle Ajasin University (Akungba, Nigeria). He holds a PhD from the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics from Tulane University.
