Teagan Bradway (she/they) is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Cortland. 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 writing a book on queer forms of relationality and guest editing “Unaccountably Queer,” a special issue of differences that will mark the 20th anniversary of Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself (2005). Previously, Bradway guest edited “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing,” a special issue of College Literature, and 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.