Andrew Bricker is an Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies and serves as co-coordinator for the English Literature Section with Prof. Elly McCausland.
During the 2024-2025 academic year, he will be an Academic Visitor at LHub: Hub of Law and the Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London). During Lent Term (January to March 2025) he will be a Visiting Fellow at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge.
He is also:
- Principal Investigator for DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour (2025-2029), which is funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (European Commission/European Union); and which grew out of his multi-university Scientific Research Network HACIDA: Humor and Conflict in the Digital Age, which was funded by an ENLIGHT RISE Grant (2022-2024);
- a Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia;
- the Academic Director of the Strategic Institutional Partnership between UGent and the University of Toronto;
- Co-Coordinator (with Prof. Alberto Godioli) of the Literature, Law and Society Research Group at the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL);
- a member of the Cartoons in Court research team, which is funded by a Constructive Advanced Thinking Grant from the Network of European Institutes of Advanced Study; and
- Co-Directeur Sportif (with Dr. Martin Zeilinger) of The Hub for Bike Studies (UGent and Abertay U, Scotland).
Prof. Bricker received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Before joining UGent he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at McGill University and a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia.
He is the author of Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792 (Oxford University Press, 2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University; the 2023 Kenshur Prize for the Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies from the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University; and the 2024 Book Award for Literatures in the English Language (2022 and 2023) from the European Society for the Study of English.
He is also, with Eric Smith, co-author of We the Raptors: Thirty Players, Thirty Stories, Thirty Years (Simon & Schuster; under contract and forthcoming, Fall 2025).
