Bradley J. Irish
Teacher and Researcher
early modern emotion
early modern neurodiversity studies
Bradley J. Irish is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University.
He has taught and published widely on the literature and culture of 16th and 17th Century England, with a particular focus on the history of emotion.
As a recently-diagnosed autistic scholar, his research is now also considering matters of neurodiversity in early modern literature and culture, via the emerging field of
early modern neurodiversity studies. He also runs literaryneurodiversity.org.
He can be reached at bradley.irish@asu.edu, or by the Contact Form.
Latest Publications:
“Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions. New York: Palgrave, 2025.
The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature. New York: Routledge, 2025.
"Shakespeare, Neurological Identity, and Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies: A Neurological Approach to 'Character.'" Co-written with Melinda Marks. Shakespeare (2024).
