Deputy Provost and Vice-Provost, Student Life and Experience
Bradley Nelson
Deputy Provost and Vice-Provost, Student Life and Experience
Bradley Nelson has been a professor of Spanish at Concordia since 2000, specializing in early modern Spanish and Latin American literature and cultural history. He has been the chair of the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics from 2005 to 2012, and again from 2022 until he joined the Provost’s Office in fall of 2025.
In 2012, he was named the graduate program director of the Individualized Program. From 2013 to 2021, he served as associate dean in the School of Graduate Studies, covering student fffairs and postdoctoral studies (2013-16) as well as academic programs and development (2016-21). In fall of 2024 he was the acting vice-dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
He has been a member of Concordia’s Centre for Cognitive Science and Linguistics since 2018 and an executive board member for the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance since 2022. Professor Nelson’s research, which has been funded by SSHRC, FQRSC, and several federal government agencies, focuses on media and spectatorship in early modern Spanish literature, as well as disinformation and pedagogical responses to it.