Contact Information
217-333-0426
Office Hours
or by appointment
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
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Awards and Honors
- Conrad Humanities Scholar 2020-2025
- Provost's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2020
- College of 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, Disability, and Narrative
- 578 - Affect, Cognition, The Human
- 593 - Proseminar: Teaching Undergraduate Literature
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, English
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. (2025). Beyond Trauma: Provisional Networks and Eccentric Forms in Fiction of the Blitz. Textual Practice, 39(1), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2281684
Gaedtke, A. (2024). Automatic Voices: Modernism, Telephony, and Delusion. In Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences (pp. 77-94). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429291616-6
Gaedtke, A. (2023). Diagnosis, Literature, and Legitimation. American Literary History, 35(3), 1317-1325. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad147
Gaedtke, A. (2023). Machines of Delusion and Desire: Literature, Media Theory, and Psychoanalysis. In The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis (pp. 421-432). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Gaedtke, A. (2023). Reflex Modernism. Journal of Modern Literature, 46(3), 189-914. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.46.3.15