Trans and queer scholars will offer concrete suggestions for building solidarity and fighting back against authoritarianism. Teagan Bradway (she/her) is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of English at SUNY Cortland. She is a queer theorist and scholar of LGBTQ+ and experimental literatures. Her work examines how queer kinship takes shape and endures through aesthetic and affective labor. She is particularly fascinated by the ways LGBTQ+ people sustain social worlds through storytelling and other narrative practices.

She is the author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (2017) and co-editor of Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (2022) and After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century. Bradway is also the guest editor of 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.

Bradway’s articles have appeared in venues such as PMLA, GLQ, MLQ, Textual Practice, ASAP/J, The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, the Routledge Companion to Literature and Politics, and The Nation. In 2024, Bradway was a Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney. Currently, Bradway is completing a book on queer engroupment and co-writing “Endless Love” with the late Elizabeth Freeman. Bradway has designed and taught 28 different courses at all levels. Her favorite courses to teach include Queer and Trans Narrative Theory, LGBTQ+ Literature, Reading for Form, Vibe Shifts in Contemporary Fiction, Psychology in Literature, and the Politics of Horror Cinema.

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