Bradley Underwood
Northwestern University

Bradley Underwood, an ordained Baptist minister, is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University and Associate Director of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. Prior to studying at Northwestern, Bradley received a Master's Degree in Theological Studies from Duke Divinity School at Duke University as well as a Bachelors of Arts in History from Baylor University. Bradley studies nineteenth-century Russian literature, and he is especially interested in the relation between literature, philosophy, and theology. Bradley is currently writing his Master's thesis under the direction of Susan McReynolds on anagogy, iconography, and Christ in Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General.