G. W. Stephen Brodsky
# G. W. Stephen Brodsky

Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky (born 19 November 1933) is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies.

## Life

G. W. Stephen Brodsky is a literary research scholar and author. Formerly a career soldier, he joined the Canadian Army Reserves in 1949, aged fifteen, as a boy drummer. He subsequently served 1951–83 in regular army paratroop and conventional units of the Canadian Infantry, retiring in the rank of major. He saw tours of duty with NATO in West Germany, as a UN Peacekeeper in Cyprus and Kashmir, and as an instructor of officers.

Brodsky holds a BA (Queen's University, Canada), MA (University of Victoria, Canada) in Renaissance Literature and Drama, and DPhil (PhD) (University of York, UK) in Modern Literature with specialist studies in the works of Joseph Conrad. As a military professor on the academic faculty of Royal Roads Military College (RRMC), Victoria, Canada, he taught military ethics and Literature, and subsequently was a civilian Special Lecturer on Literature of War at RRMC.

A former trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America (2012–14), Brodsky writes and publishes literary criticism and reviews.

