Research Interests
British and Irish Modernism, Contemporary Fiction, Narratology, Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, History of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Media Theory
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Awards and Honors
- Provost's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2020
- LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2020
- IPRH Faculty Fellowship, 2019-2020
- Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2018-2019
- IPRH Prize for Faculty Research in the Humanities, 2016
- IPRH Faculty Fellowship, 2013-2014
- IPRH Prize for Faculty Research in the Humanities, 2013
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- 115 - Intro to British Literature
- 213 - Modernism and Modernity
- 219 - Literature and Medicine
- 247 - Doppelgangers, Doubles, and Divided Minds
- 300 - Literature of War: Disability, Gender, and Modernism
- 301 - Critical Approaches to Literature
- 442 - British Literature Since 1930: Returns of the Repressed
Graduate
- 500 - Intro to Theory and Research
- 543 - The Minds of Modernism
- 563 - Neurodiversity, Self-Narration, and the Post-Human
- 578 - Affect, Cognition, The Human
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Recent Publications
Gaedtke, A. (2020). Rev. of Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain by Heather Fielding. Modernism/Modernity, 21(1), 199-201.
Gaedtke, A. (2017). Modernism and the machinery of madness: Psychosis, technology, and narrative worlds. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108284035
Gaedtke, A. (2016). On the Paradox of ‘British Modernism’: G. Abravanel's Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire. Modernist Cultures, 11(2), 293-297. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2016.0139
Gaedtke, A. (2015). Neuromodernism: Diagnosis and Disability in Will Self’s Umbrella. MFS - Modern Fiction Studies, 61(2), 271-294. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2015.0023
Gaedtke, A. (2015). 'Prey to Communications': Samuel Beckett and the Simulation of Psychosis. Modernist Cultures, 10(2), 227-249. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2015.0110