2026

Poetry workshop at York Literature Festival for International Women’s Day.

2025

Workshop/Project: Satire and Silliness: A Poetry Challenge with Jane Austen's House, The Poetry Society's Young Poets Network (September 2025). Partnered with Jane Austen's House to host a free online poetry workshop and judge a national writing challenge for young poets celebrating the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth.

Poetry/Reading: Pamphlet Launch at Rise! Bluebird, York with Maya Caspari and Becca Drake (June 2025).

Radio: BBC Radio 3 - Janine Bradbury - The Essay: Losing Yourself in Books (March 2025).

Read at premiere of Women of York at York St John University (March 2025). This is an archive film, produced in collaboration with the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive (YFA/NEFA) and featuring my poem “Soror Ave Vivas in Deo” about the Ivory Bangle Lady.

2024

Poetry reading: Rise Up! Poetry reading with Charlotte Shevchenko-Knight and Alex Mepham (November 2024).

Radio: BBC Free Thinking (Why Read?) hosted by Shahidha Bari feat. Janine Bradbury, Jonathan Egid, Gabriel Gatehouse, Rana Mitter, Elif Shafak, & Tiffany Watt Smith (October 2024).

Panellist: English Association talk “What does it mean to teach context?” (October 2024).

Research talk: “On Sentimentality (After Mary Ruefle): Wrestling with Feeling” (University of York, September 2024).

Book : Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy (ignitionpress, Autumn 2024). Launched at The Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden. Poetry Book Society Autumn 2024 Pamphlet Pick.

Conference talk: “Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Writing Through Nirvana’s Nevermind” at Other Worlds: Contemporary Ekphrastic Poetry (The Open University, May 2024). Organised by Jane Yeh, with Emily Berry, Anthony V. Capildeo, Alycia Pirmohamed, Padraig Regan, and Kandace Siobhan Walker.

Research Talk: “What Women Wrestle With: Notes on Joanie Laurer” (University of York symposium, May 2024).

Radio interview: BBC New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers (May 2024).

Podcast interview: Morley Prize Podcast: Dr Janine Bradbury (Series 4, Episode 1, 2024).

Essay: “Notes From the Edge: Reflections on Black Literature, Feeling, and Teaching.” Contemporary Literature from the Classroom Cluster, Post-45 Contemporaries (2024).

2023

Talk: Aberystwyth University, Research Paper: “On the Edge: Teaching Brandon Taylor's Real Life (2020)” (October 2023).

Talk: Northumbria University, Invited Speaker: “Pedagogic Edge-Work: Teaching Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock (2021)”, Re-thinking Histories of Popular British Film and Television Conference (June 2023).

Talk: Keele University, “On the Edge: Feeling and Affect in Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water (2021) and Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock (2021)” (April 2023).

Media: BBC Radio 4: Great Lives: Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston (January 2023).

Essay/Prose: “In Conversation with Kwame Kwei-Armah.” Beneatha’s Place Programme (Young Vic, 2023).

Essay/Prose: “On Islands.” Theatre programme essay for Further than the Furthest Thing, dir. Jennifer Tang, written by Zinnie Harris (Young Vic, 2023).

Essay/Prose: “The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison edited by Linda Wagner-Martin and Kelly Reames (2023).

Poetry: “Jellyfish”, “Stranger Days’”, and “Meridian” in Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood edited by Abi Curtis (Emma Press, 2023).

Poetry: “it’s 1994 & this brown girl thinks she smells like teen spirit” and “American Smooth” in Magma 85: Poems for Schools edited by Ashley Hickson Lovence, Gill Ward, and Laurie Smith (2023).

Poetry: York Literature Festival Poetry reading with Shash Trevett and Leo Boix (2023).

2022

Talk: Harewood House, WRoCAH Colloquium Keynote: “Creative Practice, Praxis, and the Trinidadian Archive” (May 2022).

Talk: University of Cambridge, Academic Paper: “The Revenant Mulatta” (February 2022).

Talk/Panel: New Writing North Roadshow, Panellist: Northbound Award and Writing the North (February 2022).

Talk: CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England), Decolonising and Indigenous Research Methodologies Workshop: “Adrian Piper and Toi Derricotte” (January 2022).

Poetry: “Pulled” published via the Aurora Prize for Writing (2022).

Award: Finalist: Aurora Prize for Writing (2022).

2021

Talk: University of Sussex, Academic Paper: “Don Draper’s Mammy: Racial Ambiguity in AMC’s Mad Men” (November 2021).

Talk/Panel: York St John University, Host: In Conversation with Sophie Williams (October 2021).

Poetry: “On the Occasion of My Son Gumming His First Drumstick” in Oxford Poetry 093 (Winter 2021/2022).

Essay/Prose: “Notes on Decolonising the Curriculum.” BLACKLINES: The Journal of Black British Writing, Issue 1, Summer 2021.

Poetry: “SOROR AVE IN DEO” & “The Rum Tasting of the Century” in Black Lines: The Journal of Black British Writing, Issue 1 (2021).

Poetry: Poetry in Aldeburgh | Poetry London Celebrates 100 Issues with editor André Naffis-Sahely, Rachel Long, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Momtaza Mehri and Jemilea Wisdom-Baako (2021).

Project: Co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Scheme (2021).

Award: Nominee: Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship (2021).

Award: Shortlisted: Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize (2021).

2020

Talk/Panel: Durham University, Panellist: “Decolonising the Curriculum” (2020).

Media: BBC Radio 4: Woman’s Hour, interviewed by Jenni Murray about Brit Bennett’s novel The Vanishing Half (2020).

Essay/Prose: “Grappling with Race: Wrestling and Racial (Mis)representation” in Everything Patterned. Wrestling Resurgence, (2020).

Award: Winner: Poetry London Mentorship Scheme Award (2020).

2019

Talk: University of York, Invited Speaker: “Re-imagining Passing: A Feminist Project” (February 2019).

Essay/Prose: “Grace Jones: Cyborg Memoirist.” Music/Memory/Memoir edited by Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann, Helen Pleasance (Bloomsbury, 2019).

2018

Talk: University of Glasgow, Invited Speaker: “Passing and Its Transatlantic Contexts” (November 2018).

Talk/Panel: University of Huddersfield, Panellist: “Why is my curriculum white?” (October 2018).

Essay/Talk: “Navigating the Library as a Researcher of Colour.” UX in Libraries Yearbook / UX in Libraries International Conference Plenary (June 2018).

Talk: Kings College London, Presenter: British Association of American Studies Conference: “Passing Amid Protest” (April 2018).

Essay/Prose: “Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle’s Show and Key & Peele.” Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak edited by Helen Davis and Sarah Illot (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Essay/Media: “Passing for white: how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege.” The Guardian (2018).

2017

Talk/Panel: Everybody’s Reading Festival, Leicester, Panellist: “Performance and Professional Wrestling” (October 2017).

2016

Essay/Prose: “Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the WWE Debut of Goldust.” Performance and Pro Wrestling edited by Broderick Chow, Laine Eero, Claire Warden (Routledge, 2016).

2014

Talk: University of Leeds, Presenter: Race in the Americas (RITA) Seminar: “Beyond the Passing-For-White Figure in Post-Black Comedy” (March 2014).

Talk: Durham University, Invited Speaker: “Using African American Literature in BME Widening Participation / Access” (January 2014).

2013

Talk: University of Manchester & The Runnymede Trust, Invited Speaker: “Breaking into the Academy” (October 2013).

Talk: University of Edinburgh, Invited Speaker: “Using Pedagogy to Celebrate Diversity” (September 2013).

Media: BBC Radio 4: Woman’s Hour, interviewed by Jenni Murray about the career of Zora Neale Hurston (2013).

Essay/Media: “Black, female, and postgraduate: why I cannot be the only one.” The Guardian (2013).

Essay/Prose: "Critical Reception: Zora Neale Hurston and the Paradox of Patronage." Critical Insights: Zora Neale Hurston edited by Sharon Lynette Jones (Salem Press, 2013).