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Elizabeth A. Bradburn
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston College, 2004
Milton, Seventeenth-Century British Literature, Cognitive
Theory, Poetry
Office: 917 Sprau
E-mail: elizabeth.bradburn@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-2620
Beth Bradburn holds a B.A. from Amherst College, where her poetry won the Collin Armstrong Prize and the MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston College. She has taught at Tufts University and Wake Forest University. At Western, she teaches British Literature I, Studies in Verse, The Nature of Poetry, and English Renaissance Literature.
Her doctoral dissertation, a portion of which appeared as an essay in Comparative Drama, is on Milton and theater. She has published articles on cognitive approaches to literature in SEL and Milton Studies, and her chapter on representations of consciousness in seventeenth-century narrative will appear in a forthcoming volume from the University of Nebraska Press. Her current shorter projects include an essay on Shakespeare and cognition for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, and an essay on the significance to cognitivist literary criticism of the philosopher Susanne K. Langer. She is also working on a monograph about narrative verse in English from Edmund Spenser to Marilyn Hacker.
Dr. Bradburn publishes a blog on leadership, pedagogy, literature and other topics from a zen buddhist perspective at http://printlessfeet.blogspot.com/.
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