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 and the SUNY Cortland Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenure-Track Faculty.

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