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Position

Full Professor

Education

• BA (York University)
• MA, PhD (McGill University)

Contact Information

• Office: AA 3041 
• Telephone: (709) 864-8276 
• Email:  bradleyc@mun.ca

Research Interests

Twentieth-Century Literature (Modernism and Postmodernism, esp. British and American); Literary and Cultural Theory; Cinema and Popular Culture Studies; Adaptation Practices and Reception Aesthetics; Materialist Close Readings of Objecthood (postcards, bowling, slumming, taboo drug cultures, phantom limb, parallax, ekphrasis);

Selected Publications

Books, Articles, and Book Chapters

• Rereading Modernist Postcards: Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery. Routledge, (24 August 2023), 280 pages. ()

• �The Material Modernism of Evelyn Waugh�s Playful Public Postcards.� Evelyn Waugh Studies, 54.1 (Spring 2023), (12,152 words).

• �Quotidian Signs Taken in Joycean Wonder: A Note on Appreciative Values.� James Joyce Literary Supplement, 36:1, 2023, pp.103-05.

• �Trump�s Base! You Can Say that Again!!: An Optimistic Deconstruction of Base Politics.� Canadian Review of American Studies, 52.1, (Spring 2022), pp.1-15.

• �Don DeLillo�s Anagogic Postcards: Thematic Inscriptions Writ Small.� Canadian Review of American Studies vol. 45, no. 3, Winter 2015, pp. 375-399.
• �Loser Wins: The Rhetoric of High Modernism in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.� Double-Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film, edited by David Jarraway, Ottawa UP, 2013, pp. 199-218.
• �No Two Ways About It: William Empson�s Enabling Modernist Ambiguities.� Re-Reading the New Criticism, edited by Miranda Hickman and John McIntyre, Ohio UP, 2012, pp. 109-133.
• �SlightDepressShun: A Literary Bebop Jazz Improvisation (for Boyd Thistle).� Out Loud: Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma, and Recovery, Breakwater, 2010, pp, 107-113.
• �Lacanian Shopaholics and Conspicuous Consumption in Madame Bovary: The Mirror (Stage), a Beaver Hat, and the Desire for Desire.� Co-authored with Lacey Decker. Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory vol. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 8-22.
• ��Fuck it, let�s go bowling�: The Cultural Connotations of Bowling in The Big Lebowski.� The Year�s Work in Lebowski Studies, edited by Commentale and Aaron Jaffe, Indiana State UP, 2009, pp. 295-320.
• �Heredity and Disinheritance in Joyce�s Portrait.� Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance, edited by Allan Hepburn, U of Toronto P, 2007, pp. 191-218.
• �A Sense of Proportion: Mrs. Dalloway as an Allegory of Modernist Writing.� Illuminations: New Readings of Virginia Woolf, edited by Carol Merli, Macmillan, 2004, pp. 17-34.
• � Candid Camera and the Origins of Reality TV: Contextualising a Historical Precedent.� Understanding Reality TV, edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn, Routledge, 2004, pp. 33-53.
• �Fingerpondering Shakespeare, Swinburne, Joyce, and the Concentration Camps.� The Shakespeare Newsletter vol. 47, no. 2/3, Summer/Fall 1997, pp. 46-48.

Conference Presentations and Lectures

• �Trump�s Base!�You Can Say that Again!: An Optimistic Deconstruction of Base Politics.� Canadian Association of American Studies. Montreal. October 2019.

• �Jazzing Noir: Rethinking Adjectival Modifiers as Derivative Creativity through the Example of Natsuo Kirino�s Out.� ACCUTE (special member panel for Canadian Association of American Studies). Vancouver. June 2019.

• �Cormac McCarthy�s Suttree and the Textual Politics of Literary Slumming.� Canadian Association of American Studies. October 2014, Kitchener, Canada.
• �Leonard Cohen�s Dirty Postcards.� Association for Canadian and Québecois Literature. May 2013, Victoria, Canada.
• �Don DeLillo�s Anagogic Postcards: Thematic Inscriptions Writ Small.� Canadian Association of American Studies, October 2012, Toronto, Canada.
• �Modernism and the Popularizing of Vernacular Cognitive Theory.� Modernist Studies Association (MSA 11). November 2009, Montreal, Canada.
• �The Functional Rhetoric of High Modernism in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.� Double-Takes: Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film. May 2009, University of Ottawa, Canada.
• �The Postcard Always Rings Twice: The Rhetoric of Ring Lardner�s Negative Postcard Aesthetics.� Canadian Association of American Studies, August 2008, 91��ɫ of Newfoundland, Canada.
• �Stimulus-Response Behaviorism: Modernism�s Ideological Unconscious.� Modernist Studies Association (MSA 8), October 2006, Tulsa, USA..
• ��Ah, fuck it, let�s go bowling�: The Antecedent Cultural Connotations of Bowling in The Big Lebowski.� The Lebowski Cult: An Academic Symposium, September 2006,.Louisville, USA.
• �The Modernist Response to Behaviorism: An Aesthetic Exploitation of Conditioning.� Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, February 2006, Louisville, USA.
• �Home-made Modernism: Everyday Postcard PoiÄ�sis.� Modernist Studies Association (MSA 7), November 2005, Chicago, USA.
• �The �U.P.:up� Postcard: Why It Continues to Matter.� Bloomsday 100: International James Joyce Symposium, June 2004, Dublin, Ireland.
• �Surviving Modernist Dissonance with the Archival Body.� Archiving Modernism, July 2003. University of Alberta, Canada.
• �Interpretation Is a Survival Skill.� ACCUTE. Learned Congress, May 200, Halifax, Canada.
• �Canada: A Natural Resource of Literary Modernism.� The Canadian Modernists Meet: A Symposium, May 2003, University of Ottawa, Canada.
• �Postcards from the Edges of Modernism.� Material Modernisms, July 2001, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• �The �Great Shapesphere�: Impressions of a Literary Modernist, or Godzilla vs. Shakespeare.�  Plenary Speaker. Shakespeare and Theatrical Modernism. Montreal. October 1997.
• �Joyce�s Echoing Sirens: Cuckoldry, Tapping, and a Pincushion.� Hysterical/Historical Joyce: International James Joyce Symposium, June 1997, University of Toronto, Canada.
• �James Joyce and Canadian Historical Con/Texts.� Miami J�yce, February 1996, University of Miami, USA.
• �Developing the Photograph in Margaret Atwood�s �This Is a Photograph of Me.�� Midwest MLA, November 1995, St. Louis, USA.
• �Shibboleths of the Public Sphere: Framing and Unframing Motivated Graffiti.� Convergences and Transformations, April 1995, Montreal, Canada.

Honours and Graduate Supervision

Ph.D. Dissertation Supervisor

• �Cold War Confessions: Autobiographic Poetry in the Age of Anxiety.� (2008).
• �Portraits of Family Commitment in Postmodern American Fiction: Acker, Gaddis, and Coover.� (2006).

M.A. Thesis / M.A. 6999 Supervisor

• �Shock! Full Stop and Period Play: The Horror of Menstrual Liminality in Carrie.� (Winter 2010).

• �But then the Allusion Is Lost: Interpretive Anxiety and the Joycean Allusion.� (2013).

• �An Anatomy of Celebrity: Representations of Celebrity in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction.� (2008).
• �Wholes and Parts (All Puns Intended): The Mereological Vision of Richard Outram�s Poetic Sequences.� (2007) [M.A. Thesis Award, Northeastern Assoc. of Grad. Schools].

Honours Essay Supervisor

• �A Marginal Type of Love: How Gender Ambiguity Creates Liminal Spaces in Jeanette Winterson�s Written on the Body, Lighthousekeeping, and Frankissstein� (Winter 2020).

• �Paris, Capital of the Artist: Movement, the Construction of Place, and Artistic Production in the Modern City.� (Winter 2018).

• �An Allusion�s Worth a Thousand Words: The Imagined Sense of Canada in Tragically Hip Song Lyrics.� (2017).
• �Sustaining Authenticity: Written Forms of Textual Authority as Anchors for Constructed Identities in Julian Barnes� England, England.� (2016).
• �Frequencies of Consciousness: Televisual Media and Textual Mediation in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho.� (2015).
• �Equality and Independence: The Defense of the Natural World in D. H. Lawrence�s The Rainbow.� (2015).
• �Reexamining Liminality as Identity: Murakami Haruki�s Kafka on the Shore as Contemporary Bildungsroman.� (2013).
• �Red Tights and Red Tape: Satirical Misreadings of C.S. Lewis� The Screwtape Letters.� (2010).
• �In the Midst of Death, We Are in Life: Issues of Closure and Self-Interest in the �Hades� Chapter of James Joyce�s Ulysses.� (2010).
• �From B-Flat to Bloomsday: Joyce�s Experiment with Musics-Literary Adaptation in �Sirens� and How It Unites the Formal and the Thematic.� (2009).
• �Death from Above: Trauma and Distance in Greene�s The Third Man, Heller�s Catch-22, and Vonnegut�s Slaughterhouse-Five.� (2009).
• �Ideological Encounters with Zombies: Shifting Epistemologies of Gender, Race, and Technology.� (2009).
• ��Who�s that Girl?�: An Analysis of Literary Ambiguity and the Female Character in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction.� (2009).
• �Reader � Writer � Author: Authorship as Motivated Interpretation in J. M. Coetzee�s Foe, Italo Calvino�s If on a winter�s night a traveler, and Ian McEwan�s Black Dogs.� (2007).
• �Spring Is a Deeper Season: E.E. Cummings and Seasonal Archetypes.� (2007).
• ��All Things in Excess�: The Theme of Excess in Anglo-American Modern Fiction.� (2006).
• � Jamais Vu: Existential and Marxist Alienation in Chuck Palahnuik�s Choke, Survivor, and Diary.� (2006).
• �The Sense of �the Other� in Gertrude Stein�s Melanctha and Djuna Barnes� Nightwood.� (2005).
• �You Can Turn a Murder into Art: Fact, Fiction, and Representation in Contemporary Serial Killer Narratives.� (2005).
• �Sympathy for the Devil: A Study of Vampires in Film.� (2005).
• �Vestiges of a Dream: The Ghosts of Hollywood in Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Mulholland Dr.� (2004).
• �Masters of Reality: An Examination of the Conventions of Reality TV and The Osbournes.� (2004).