Bradley J. Irish

Bradley J. Irish studies the literature and culture of Renaissance England, with a particular focus on both the history of emotion and the emerging field of early modern neurodiversity studies.

He is the author of "Emotion and the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling" (2018), "Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion" (2023), "The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities" (2024), "The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature" (2025), and "Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions" (2025). He is the co-editor of "Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture" (2021), "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion" (2022), and the forthcoming "Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature."

He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Emotion Review. He is also the creator of literaryneurodiversity.org and earlymodernemotion.net.

His other research interests include: Tudor political and cultural history; emotions in early modern culture; Henrician literature and culture; Renaissance poetry, especially Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Spenser; the Elizabethan courtier poets; Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare; the revenge tragedy tradition; the stoic tradition in Renaissance literature; early modern manuscript culture; paleography and archival research.