Jack Bradford is a PhD candidate writing a dissertation about contemporary ambivalence toward the Western. It addresses, among other things, the possibilities of Native American historical fiction, the male sentimental novel, and the intersections of Black and Native studies. His other interests include the history of the novel since 1700, modernism and the modern romance, the blues, and the history of aesthetics. He graduated from Duke University, where he was a Benjamin N. Duke scholar, in 2019; and he is currently an editorial assistant at the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Publication:

“Document Style and Fictional Minds after Modernism,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, forthcoming 2026.