Brooke Bradley is a current Ph.D. student who specializes in Post-1900 American Literature with an emphasis on Gender and Feminist Studies. Her research interests include multi-ethnic literature, queer studies, ecocriticism, science fiction and fantasy, speculative fiction, borders (both corporeal and noncorporeal), and popular culture. Brooke obtained her M.A. degree in Literature, as well as a graduate certificate in Gender Studies, in 2015 at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, where she also received a B.A .in Literature with a History minor in 2012. In 2016, she presented her paper “The School Yard Town: Juvenility in Pudd’nhead Wilson,” at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah; later that year at Midwest Modern Language Association’s conference, she presented “Mountain Borders: Femininity, Masculinity, and Sex in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven” in St. Louis, Missouri. Brooke has always possessed a passion for literature, education, and books which she has kindled throughout her academic career as well as during her former position as a library cataloger at Murray State University’s library. Brooke continues to pursue her interests through her research and by teaching literature and composition courses at FSU.
Brooke Bradley