Faculty/Staff Detail
Tyler Bradway
Website: Tyler Bradway website
Tyler Bradway (they/them) is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Cortland.
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, 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 editing “Unaccountably Queer,” a special issue of differences that will mark the 20th anniversary of Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself (2005).
Bradway received their Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University, where they were a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. Bradway 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 Excellent in Teaching Award for Tenure-Track Faculty.
Bradway’s courses include Queer Narrative Theory, LGBTQ+ Literature, AIDS Literature, Reading for Form, and Experimental Fiction.
Education
Ph.D. Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2013
M.A., Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2009
B.A., English and Women’s Studies, West Chester University, 2006
Other / Non-Degree
Project Narrative, Ohio State University, 2017
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 2007
Teaching
Selected Graduate Courses
Reading for Form
Futurity in Contemporary Science Fiction
LGBTQ Literature
Queer Kinship
Literary Criticism and Contemporary Critical Theory
How to Do Queer Things with Narrative
Selected Undergraduate Courses
Queer Theory
LGBTQ Literature
Sexuality and Contemporary Literature
Postmodern / Postwar Fiction
American Literature 1900-present
Literary and Cultural Theory
Psychology in Literature
Horror Cinema
Publications
Books
Group Work: Queer Relationality and Social Narration, in progress.
Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading. Palgrave, 2017.
Edited Collections
Special Issues
“Unaccountably Queer.” differences, in progress.
“Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing.” College Literature, 2019
Articles
“The Queerness of Character-Details.” MLQ, forthcoming.
“Graphic Attachment: Relational Formalism and Queer Dependency.” ASAP/J, 2023.
“Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form.” PMLA, 2021
“Sexual Disorientation: Queer Narratology and Affect Plots in New Narrative.” Textual Practice, 2021
“The Promise of Experimental Writing.” College Literature, 2019
“Bad Reading: The Affective Relations of Queer Experimental Literature after AIDS.” GLQ, 2018
“Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction.” Mosaic, 2015
Book Chapters
“Reading Camp.” The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, in progress.
“Queer Formalisms.” New Departures in the Study of Gender and Narrative, in progress.
“Affect and Aesthetics.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Politics, forthcoming
“Geometric Kinship: Sensuous Abstraction and the Accumulation of Forms in Black Queer Kinaesthetics.” Routledge Companion to Queer Theory and Modernist Studies, forthcoming
Public Writing
“What Constitutes a Family? Don’t Ask Conservatives,” with Elizabeth Freeman, The Nation, 2022
“Queer Theory Now and the Pleasure of Movement,” with E.L. McCallum, FifteenEightyFour, 2019