Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Andrew Gaedtke

Assistant Professor of English

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Contact Information

Office Hours

  • Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:30

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2009; BA University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

Courses

English 301, Critical Approaches to Literature

Research Interests

British and Irish Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science, Disability Studies, New Media Studies

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • "Cognitive Investigations: The Problems of Qualia and Style in the Contemporary Neuronovel." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 45.2 (2012): 184-201.
  • "From Transmissions of Madness to Machines of Writing: Mina Loy's Insel as Clinical Fantasy." jml: Journal of Modern Literature 32.1 (2008): 143-162.

Reviews

  • "Desiring Machines." Rev. of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life jml: Journal of Modern Literature 36.1 (2012):
  • "James Joyce as Philosopher of Time." Rev. of The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida jml: Journal of Modern Literature 34.2 (2011): 192-195.
  • "The Aesthetics and Politics of Disability." Rev. of Concerto For the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body jml: Journal of Modern Literature 33.1 (2009):

Works in Progress

  • The Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Twentieth-Century Narrative (book manuscript)
  • "Halluci-nation: Madness and Modernity in Midnight's Children," Contemporary Literature (under review)