Curriculum Vitae
Bradford K. Mudge
 2344 High Street
Denver, CO 80205
303-556-2575
bmudge@carbon.cudenver.edu

EDUCATION:

    1984-86: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
       Ph.D. in English Literature, August 1986
    1980-84: Duke University, Durham, NC
       Doctoral Study in English Literature
    1979-80: Duke University, Durham, NC
       M.A. in English Literature, July 1980
    1976-79: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
       B.A. in English Literature, May 1979
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

    Professor of English, University of Colorado at Denver, 2000-
    Chair, Department of English, University of Colorado at Denver, 1999-
    Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado at Denver, 1991-2000
    Director of Graduate Studies in English, 1988-
    Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Denver, 1986-91
    Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 1985-86
    Assistant Instructor, Duke University, 1980-82

ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS:

    Seed Money Award, University of Colorado at Denver, 1999
    UROP Grant Supervisor, Rowlandson Project, University of Colorado at Denver, 1999
    Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Colorado at Denver, 1998
    Research Development Grant, University of Colorado at Denver, 1992
    Outstanding Academic Book, Choice, May 1990
    Colorado Seminars in Literature Book Award, April 1990
    NEH Summer Stipend, 1989
    Outstanding Research Award, University of Colorado at Denver, 1989
    Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Colorado at Denver, 1989
    NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1988
    ESU Summer Stipend for Research Abroad, 1988
    Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Colorado, 1987
    South Central Review's Best Essay of the Year, 1987
    Honorable Mention, Florence Howe Award in Feminist Studies, 1986
    Phi Kappa Phi, University of Texas at Austin, 1986
    Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Texas, 1986
    Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellowship, 1984-85
    CCTE Prize for Literary Scholarship, 1983
    Duke University Graduate Fellowship, 1979-80

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • 2000 The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  • 1992 British Romantic Novelists. Vol 116 of The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Editor. Detroit and London: Gale Press.

  • 1989 Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. New Haven: Yale University Press.

  • 1989 "Exiled as Exiler: Virginia Woolf on the Canon." In Women's Writing in Exile. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, pp. 199-223.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION:

    The Social, Political, and Obscene Satire of Thomas Rowlandson.

    The Life and Art of Thomas Rowlandson.

ARTICLES :

  • 2000 "Material Girls: Thomas Rowlandson's Obscene Satire." Romanticism on the Web. Under consideration.

  • 2000 "Sara Coleridge." The New Dictionary of National Biography. Forthcoming.

  • 1992 "The Man with Two Brains: Gothic Novels, Popular Culture, Literary History." PMLA 107.1: 92-104.

  • 1991 "Echo's Words, Echo's Body: Apostasy, Narcissism, and the Practice of History." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 10.2: 197-213.

  • 1991 "'Excited by Trick': Coleridge and the Gothic Imagination." The Wordsworth Circle. 12.3: 179-84.

  • 1989 "Telling Her Own Story: Sara Coleridge and the 1850 Essays on His Own Times." The Coleridge Bulletin 2: 32-42.

  • 1988 "Sara Coleridge and 'The Business of Life.'" The Wordsworth Circle. 19.1 (1988), 55-64.

  • 1986 "Burning Down the House: Sara Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, and the Politics of Literary Revision." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 5.2: 229-50.

  • 1986 "Winding Stairs to a Ruined Tower: The Politics of Autobiography in the Biographia Literaria." South Central Review 7.1: 27-45.

  • 1985 "Song of Himself: Crisis and Selection in The Prelude, Books I and VII." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 27: 1-24.

  • 1984 "On Tennyson's The Princess: Sara Coleridge in the Quarterly Review." The Wordsworth Circle 15: 51-55.

  • 1983 "The Measured Form: Context and Closure in Pope's An Essay on Man." Conference of College Teachers of English Bulletin 48: 19-29.

  • 1983 "Sara Coleridge: A Portrait from the Papers." The Library Chronicle of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 23 : 14-35.

BOOK REVIEWS:

  • 2001 "John Richetti, The English Novel in History, 1700-1780." Modern Language Quarterly. Forthcoming.

  • 2000 "Virginia Blain, Caroline Bowles Southey; Christopher Smith, A Quest for Home: Reading Robert Southey." The Wordsworth Circle. Forthcoming.

  • 2000 "Mark Storey, Robert Southey: A Life." Keats-Shelley Journal. 48 (2000), 46-50.

  • 1989 "Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory and The Function of Criticism; Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics; Janet Todd, Feminist Literary History; and Terry Lovell, Consuming Fiction." The Bloomsbury Review 9.6 (1989), 30-31.

  • 1989 "Paul Magnuson, Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue." South Central Review 6.1: 84-87.

  • 1988 "Molly Lefebure, The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge." The Wordsworth Circle 19.4: 184-86.

  • 1988 "Jane Marcus, Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy; and Mary Jacobus, Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 7.1: 138-45.

  • 1987 "Raimonda Modiano, Coleridge and the Concept of Nature." South Central Review 4.2: 107-110.

  • 1986 "Peter F. Morgan, Jeffrey's Criticism." The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 9: 455-56.

  • 1985 "Don Bialostosky, Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments; and James K. Chandler, Wordsworth's Second Nature." South Atlantic Review 50.3 (1985), 166-69.

  • 1984 "Charles Berlitz, Native Tongues." American Speech 59.3: 244-45

PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS AND SEMINARS:

  • 2000 "Thomas Rowlandson and the Origins of British Pornography." Western Conference on British Studies. Denver, CO.

  • 2000 "Thomas Rowlandson's Obscene Satire." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Tempe, AZ.

  • 2000 "Testing the Interdisciplinary Waters; Or, Can Thomas Rowlandson Stay Afloat in an English Department?" University of Denver, Denver, CO.

  • 1999 "Women Romantic Poets." University of Colorado at Boulder, Session Chair. Boulder, CO.

  • 1997 "Thomas Rowlandson and the Literary Politics of Romantic Pornography." MLA, Toronto, Canada.

  • 1996 "Women and Pornography." University of Colorado at Denver Alumni Association, Denver, CO.

  • 1991 "Pornography and Literary History." MLA, San Francisco, CA.

  • 1991 "Lost in a Material World: Bad Girls, Popular Novels, Literary Pleasures." MMLA, Chicago, IL.

  • 1991 "'Excited by Trick': Coleridge and the Gothic Imagination." The Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, U.K.

  • 1990 "Pornography and Masculinity." Denver Psychoanalytic Institute. Denver, CO.

  • 1990 "Gothic Novels, Popular Culture, Literary History." University of Denver, Denver, CO.

  • 1990 "Gothic Novels and the Feminization of Popular Culture." Conference on Curriculum Reform, Keystone, CO.

  • 1989 "Writing Women into the Margins." Comparative Literature Symposium: Redefining Marginality, Tulsa, OK.

  • 1989 "Ad Feminam: American Feminism and the Practice of Theory." Marxist Scholars Conference, Louisville, KY.

  • 1989 "The Man With Two Brains: The Function of Criticism, 1789-1989." The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

  • 1989 "Child of Genius: Sara Coleridge and the Politics of Romantic Literary History." The University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME.

  • 1988 "Critical Legal Studies: Literary Theory and the Law." MLA, New Orleans, LA.

  • 1987 "Telling Her Own Story: Sara Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, and the 1850 Essays on His Own Times." Coleridge Summer Conference, Nether Stowey, U.K.

  • 1987 "Publishing Victorian Womanhood: Sara Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, and the Politics of Canonization." MLA, San Francisco, CA.

  • 1987 "Redefining the Romantic Patrimony: Sara Coleridge and the 1847 Biographia Literaria." MLA, San Francisco, CA.

  • 1987 "Critical Apostasy: American Marxism, American Feminism, and the Apolitical Imperative." SAMLA, Atlanta, GA.

  • 1987 "Parody and Postmodernism." Chair of Special Session, SCMLA, Houston, TX.

  • 1987 "Healing the Body Politic: Sara Coleridge, Madness, and Matriarchy." Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, U.K.

  • 1986 "Hegel and the Discourses of English Romanticism." Chair of Special Session, MLA, New York, NY.

  • 1986 "Exiled as Exiler: Virginia Woolf on the Canon." MLA, New York, NY.

  • 1986 "Burning Down the House: Sara Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, and the Politics of Literary Revision." SCMLA, New Orleans, LA.

  • 1986 "Discipline and Punish: Policing the Contemporary Crime Show." National Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, GA.

  • 1986 "Sara Coleridge: The Early Years." Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

  • 1985 "The Politics of Romantic Autobiography." The Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, SC.

  • 1984 "Song of Himself: The Prelude's Select Beginning." SAMLA, Atlanta, GA.

  • 1983 "The Measured Form: Context and Closure in Pope's An Essay on Man." Conference of College Teachers of English, Dallas, TX.

  • 1983 "Criticism in Conflict: T. S. Eliot and the Rage for Order." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY.

  • 1982 "The Lost Self: The Missing Text in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria." SCMLA, San Antonio, TX.

COURSES TAUGHT:

    Core Composition I and II
    Advanced Composition

    Introduction to Literary Studies
    Introduction to Feminist Thought
    Critical Writing
    History of American Film
    Sexual Politics in American Film
    History of Silent Film
    Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
    Swift and Defoe

    Literature and Pornography
    The Romantic Age
    John Keats
    Wordsworth and Coleridge
    The Victorian Age
    The Twentieth-Century Novel
    History of the Novel
    Women and the Novel
    Love and Truth
    Critical Theory

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

    Modern Language Association
    Association of Departments of English
    American Association of University Professors

SERVICE:

Department of English:

    1988-    Director of Graduate Studies
    1988-    Graduate Studies Committee, Chair.
    1990-92 Executive Committee.
    1991-92 Film Search Committee, Chair.
    1993-95 Salary Increment Committee.
    1993-94 Comprehensive Review and Reappointment Committee, Chair.
    1993-94 Tenure and Promotion Committee.
    1994-95 Victorian Search Committee, Chair.
    1995-96 Comprehensive Review and Reappointment Committee, Chair.
    1996-    Graduate Examination Committee.
    1997-99 Executive Committee.
    1997-98 Rhetoric Search, Member and then Chair.
    1998-99 Rhetoric Search, Member.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:

    1991-92 Multi-Cultural Diversity Committee.
    2000-    Dean's Advisory Council

University of Colorado at Denver:

    1991-92 Education 2000 Sub-Committee.
    1991-92 Parking Oversight Committee.
    1991-    Sexual Harassment Committee.
    1998-00 Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee.
    1998-    Research and Creative Activities Committee.
    1999-    Graduate Council, Member.

University of Colorado (System):

    1993-95 President's Fund for the Humanities.
    1997-    President's Fund for the Humanities.

Community:

    1989-    Academic Source, The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Channel 7 News, U.S. News and World Report.
    1997-    Chuck Workman Seminar, Denver Film Festival.
    1997-    Instructor, Tiger Kim's Tae Kwon Do.
    1998-    Mayor's Council on Arts, Culture, and Film
    2000-    College Advisory Committee of the Denver Art Museum

This page last modified: October 21, 2000
by Peter S. Cassidy, MA