Professor Bardsley’s research interests include cognitive literary studies; disabilities, particularly neurodivergence, in literature and culture; feminism, and feminist pedagogy. She primarily teaches courses in CSI’s Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and literature courses, often with a focus on gender or on disabilities.
Degrees
BA, The George Washington University
PhD University of California, Berkeley
Professor Bardsley has presented papers in Canada, Scotland, and Wales, as well as all over the U. S. She has published essays in such diverse journals as Modern Fiction Studies, The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Feminist Teacher, Modern Philology, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, as well as a chapters in the volumes from Cambridge University Press and Bucknell University Press
