Literary Neurodiversity Studies

Bradley J. Irish is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, where he focuses on the literary and cultural history of Renaissance emotion and, more recently, early modern neurodiversity studies.  He is the author of Emotion and the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (2018), Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (2023), The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities (2024), and The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature (2025), and the co-editor of Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2021), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (2022), and the forthcoming Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature.  He is an internationally recognized expert on early modern emotion and is becoming an important contributor to the development of early modern neurodiversity studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction:  What is Neurodiversity?.- Chapter 2: Literary Neurodiversity: The Present.- Chapter 3: Literary Neurodiversity: A Future?.- Chapter 4: Case Study: Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence in Othello.- Chapter 5:  Conclusion: Looking Forward: The Future of Neurodiversity.- Appendix: Bibliography of Literary Neurodiversity Studies.