He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri, specializing in early American literature and cultural studies. Dr. Bradshaw has extensive teaching experience with specialized academic programs at UTM, teaching for several years in the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities and helping English Majors with their Senior Capstone projects. He received the Coffey Outstanding Teacher award in 2008. He loves traveling, having organized travel-study programs for students to the American Southwest, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia and having participated in exchanges with the Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of New Brunswick-St. John. Currently he is working with several other campus professors to make UTM a sustainable campus.