Alyson Brickey

Title: Assistant Professor
Building: Ashdown

Biography:

Alyson Brickey is Assistant Professor in the Department of English. Her teaching and research focus on transatlantic modernist literature and critical theory, particularly the relationship between literary aesthetics and ethics/politics. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto, and her work can be found in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, JML, and Mosaic. She is currently at work on a book-length project entitled "Frightful Wrongs and Beautiful Things: How Jim Crow Shaped American Modernism."  

Teaching Areas:

American literature, modernism, the novel, short fiction, critical theory

Courses:

Publications:

"The wall grey, the bananas yellow: The Social Importance of Colour in Mrs. Dalloway." Studies in the Novel 57.2 (June 2025). Forthcoming. 

“Visiting Behind Racism: Challenging the Way We Think.” Centre for Research in Cultural Studies. August 2022. Visiting "Behind Racism: Challenging the Way We Think" | Centre for Research in Cultural Studies | The University of Winnipeg (uwinnipeg.ca)

"‘Fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth:’ Object-Oriented Lists in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Journal of Modern Literature 45.3 (Spring 2022): 140-154. 

“Aesthetic Unrest: ‘Howl’ and the Literary List.” Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary and Visual Enumeration, ed. Roman Barton, Julia Böckling, Sarah Link, and Anne Ruggemeir. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 171-185. 

“Whitman’s First-Person Plural.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 38.2 (November 2020): 95–112. 

“COVID Accounting.” Centre for Research in Cultural Studies “Covid-19 and Cultural Studies” Series. June 2020. COVID Accounting | Centre for Research in Cultural Studies | The University of Winnipeg (uwinnipeg.ca)

“How does Graduate Studies Live On?” with Ryan C.P. Fics, Gwynne Fulton, Riley McGuire, and Carrie Reese. Mosaic 51.4 (December 2018): 83-116.

“The Academy’s Pink Collar.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 64.30 (April 2018). 

“Faulkner’s Coffin.” intervalla Special Issue: “Modernist Currents” (December 2016): 143–65.

“‘Advancing necessarily askew:’ The Technology of Mourning in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.” Mosaic 48.2 (June 2015): 149-161.

 “‘A text in process:’ The Progressive Aspect in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.” The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Culture. Vol. 3 (2012): 1-11.