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Alyson Brickey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and specializes in transatlantic modernist literature and critical theory, particularly examining intersections between literary aesthetics and ethics/politics. Her research explores how social contexts like racism and political movements shape literary forms and vice versa. She teaches courses on American literature, modernism, critical theory, and narrative forms.
Her research interests center on modernist authors such as Woolf, Faulkner, Stein, and Whitman, with a focus on object studies, list-making as literary form, and the socio-political dimensions of aesthetics. Her current book project, Frightful Wrongs and Beautiful Things: How Jim Crow Shaped American Modernism, investigates racial violence’s influence on modernist literary innovation.
Brickey’s recent work includes analyses of color symbolism in Mrs. Dalloway, object-oriented critiques of James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and explorations of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl as a poetic list. She has contributed to venues like Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Journal of Modern Literature, and the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at UWinnipeg.
Her scholarship engages interdisciplinary topics such as pandemic cultural responses (COVID Accounting), graduate education futures (Mosaic collaboration), and gender dynamics in academic labor. She maintains active affiliations with the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies and regularly contributes to public-facing intellectual discourse through articles and symposia.
