Alyson Brickey

Title: Assistant Professor
Building: Ashdown

Biography:

Alyson Brickey is Assistant Professor in the Department of English. Her teaching and research focus on American literature, modernist literature, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto, and her work can be found in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, JML, and Mosaic. She is currently at work on a book-length project entitled "Frightful Wrongs and Beautiful Things: How Jim Crow Shaped American Modernism."  

Teaching Areas:

American literature, modernism, the novel, short fiction, critical theory

Courses:

F MULT-1301-001 INTRO TO HUMANITIES I

W MULT-1302-001 INTRO TO HUMANITIES II

Publications:

Forthcoming: "Re-reading Canonical Poets: Walt Whitman's Queer Democracy."  Bloomsbury Handbook of Poetics, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Elena Basile and Heather Milne. Bloomsbury Press. 

"The wall grey, the bananas yellow: The Social Importance of Colour in Mrs. Dalloway." Studies in the Novel 57.2 (June 2025). Forthcoming. 

"‘Fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth:’ Object-Oriented Lists in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Journal of Modern Literature 45.3 (Spring 2022): 140-154. 

“Aesthetic Unrest: ‘Howl’ and the Literary List.” Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary and Visual Enumeration, ed. Roman Barton, Julia Böckling, Sarah Link, and Anne Ruggemeir. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 171-185. 

“Whitman’s First-Person Plural.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 38.2 (November 2020): 95–112. 

“Faulkner’s Coffin.” intervalla Special Issue: “Modernist Currents” (December 2016): 143–65.

“‘Advancing necessarily askew:’ The Technology of Mourning in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.” Mosaic 48.2 (June 2015): 149-161.

 “‘A text in process:’ The Progressive Aspect in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.” The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Culture. Vol. 3 (2012): 1-11.