Madden is an associate professor of English. He has written several critical articles on modern British and Irish poetry and has completed a book on representations of Tiresian liminality in modernist poetry ("Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001" from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). He co-edited (with Marti Lee) "Irish Studies: Geographies and Genders", also co-edited an anthology of essays and poems on male experience, "The Emergence of Man into the 21st Century," and wrote "An Open Letter to My Christian Friends," which appears in various textbooks, including "Everything's an Argument".