Brandi K. Adams

Brandi K. Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University (ASU), affiliated with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She co-founded the Arizona Book History Group with Professor Jonathan Hope. Her research focuses on book history, early modern English drama (1580-1640), intersections of race and gender in premodern studies, and connections between literature and early artificial intelligence/automata. She has published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare, and Cahiers Élisabéthains, with essays in volumes like The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England. She is currently writing a monograph on representations of books and readers in early modern drama and editing The Merry Wives of Windsor for Cambridge University Press.

Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland; B.A., Randolph-Macon College.

Teaching: Courses include Shakespeare, race and ethnicity in literature, and literary studies. Recent courses (2021–2025) span introductory and advanced topics in literature and critical theory.

Labs/Teams: Co-leader of the Arizona Book History Group. Affiliated with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.