Teagan Bradway (she/they) is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and a Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University for 2025-26. In 2024, Bradway was a Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies with the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney.

Bradway is the author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (Palgrave, 2017; paperback 2019). Bradway is co-editor (with Elizabeth Freeman) of Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke, 2022) and (with E.L. McCallum) of After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Cambridge, 2019), which won a CHOICE award. Bradway’s articles and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA, GLQ, MLQ, Textual Practice, College Literature, ASAP/J, Stanford Arcade, Studies in the Fantastic, Mosaic, Biography, and The Nation as well as various collections on contemporary literature and queer theory.

Currently, Bradway is completing a book on queer forms of relationality and co-writing “Endless Love” with the late Elizabeth Freeman.

Bradway guest edited “Unaccountably Queer” (2024), a special issue of differences, and “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing” (2019), a special issue of College Literature, which includes a critical forum on “The Sonic Politics of Black Experimentalism.”

Bradway received her Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, Project Narrative at The Ohio State University, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Haverford College.

Bradway has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, the Dr. Peter Di Nardo ’68 and Judith Waring Outstanding Achievement in Research Award, and the SUNY Cortland Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenure-Track Faculty.

Bradway’s courses include Queer Kinship, Queer and Trans Narrative Theory, LGBTQ+ Literature, AIDS Literature, Reading for Form, and Experimental Fiction.