Adam Bradley
Associate Professor of English
Office: Denison 170
Telephone: 303-492-6209
Spring 2012 Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM & Thursdays 9 – 10 AM
E-mail: Adam.Bradley@colorado.edu
Web site: adamfbradley.com/
Adam Bradley is an associate professor specializing in African American literature. He received his BA from Lewis & Clark College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Bradley’s work considers the crosscurrents of literary and popular culture, from the fiction of Ralph Ellison to the lyrics of Jay-Z. He is the co-editor of the posthumous publication of Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting. . .: The Unfinished Second Novel (Modern Library, 2010) and the author of a critical study of Ellison’s life and work entitled Ralph Ellison in Progress (Yale University Press, 2010). He is also helping to define the emerging field of hip-hop poetics with Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Basic Civitas, 2009) and The Anthology of Rap (Yale University Press, 2010). Beyond academia, his writing and commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal as well as on NPR and C-SPAN. He is presently at work on a cultural history of the Afro and several projects related to hip-hop music and culture.