Timothy Bradford joined the Expository Writing Program in 2018 and has developed and taught the following courses while at OU: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop; American Writers and Artists in Paris; and Human, Nature: Fragile Future. He has served on Expo’s Brainstorm journal selection and editing committee and is proud of the work his students and mentees have published there. In addition, from 2019 to 2023, he was a codirector of the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series at OU and codirector of and volunteer with the Writers Guild at Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington, Oklahoma. He remains on the board of the Oklahoma Prison Writers and Artists Foundation.
Timothy has taught language, literature, and writing courses for over twenty years. In his current Expo courses, he emphasizes student voices and lived experience, creativity, and the continuum between informal and formal language in academic writing as well as the opportunity to practice more traditional first-year writing course skills related to analytical reading, thinking, researching, and writing.
He is the author of the poetry collection Nomads with Samsonite, and recent work has appeared/is forthcoming in Pilgrimage Magazine, World Literature Today, and the anthology Level Land: Poems for and about the I-35 Corridor. He received the Koret Foundation’s Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award for a novel-in-progress and has been a writer-in-residence at Stanford, a guest researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Paris, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tulsa, a visiting assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, and a faculty mentor with the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is currently working on a poetry manuscript titled Chicago, (Em)(manuel)(le), & Style that explores conventions of language and desire, and a novel titled Winter Velodrome based on the history of the Vélodrome d’hiver and the Shoah in Paris.
PhD, English, Oklahoma State University, 2005
MA, English, University of Central Oklahoma, 2000
BA, Human Biology, Stanford University, 1993
First-year writing courses; poetry; fiction; non-fiction; modern and contemporary literature; music criticism; environmental writing; prison and justice writing; sports writing; contemporary cultural criticism.
From Spirituals to Hip-Hop; American Writers and Artists in Paris; Humans, Nature: Fragile Future
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