Dr. Brad Campbell
Education
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A. English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. English, St. Mary's College of California, magna cum laude
Teaching and Research Interests
American Literature
African American Literature
Literature of Madness
History of Psychiatry
Environmental Literature
Transatlantic Modernism
Selected Publications
“The Neurasthenic Logic of Robinson Jeffers’s Anti-Urbanism.” The Wild that Attracts Us: New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers. Ed. ShaunAnne Tangney. University of New Mexico Press (2015).
"'Ex Occident LUX': Jeffers, Thoreau, and the Strange Fruit of the West.'" Jeffers Studies 13.1-2 (Spring 2012).
Selected Presentations
“Intelligence Testing on the Color Line: African-American Literature, Army Alpha/Beta Tests, and the Mania of Mental Difference.” Presented at Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind 1850-1950. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. July 2018.
Selected Courses Taught
American Literature: 1830-Present
Introduction to African American Literature
Sequence VI: American, British, and Global Anglophone Literature, Late-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century
American Modernism in Black and White
Madness in American Literature
Americans in Paris
California Literature and Geography
The Literature and Landscape of the American West
Awards and Honors
Cal Poly University Distinguished Teaching Award (2021)
Cal Poly College of Liberal Arts Richard K. Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching (2012)
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (University of Illinois)