Bradley J. Irish

Bradley J. Irish is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University. He studies the literature and culture of Renaissance England, with a particular focus on both the history of emotion and the emerging field of early modern neurodiversity studies. He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Emotion Review. He is also the creator of literaryneurodiversity.org and earlymodernemotion.net.

RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − but there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers

An autistic English professor who studies literature and neurodiversity says, "I was especially unnerved by Kennedy’s contention that many autistic people will never write poetry."

By Bradley J. Irish