Melissa Bradshaw

Courtesy of the poet

Melissa Bradshaw (she/her) teaches writing and literary and cultural studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the cultural rhetorics that inform people’s understanding of powerful public women. Bradshaw has published on the American poet Amy Lowell, coediting a volume of her poems and a volume of scholarly essays about Lowell. Her book Amy Lowell, Diva Poet (Ashgate, 2011) won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. Bradshaw has also published on poets Edith Sitwell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Denise Levertov, and her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Victorian Poetry, Modernism/modernity, and Feminist Modernist Studies. She is working on a volume of the selected letters of Amy Lowell and a critical digital edition of Lowell’s collected letters, for which she won an NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Digital Publication.