04/08/2025
Teagan Bradway, a SUNY Cortland associate professor of English, has been awarded the 2025 Dr. Peter A. DiNardo ’68 and Judith Waring Outstanding Achievement in Research Award.
“Amidst many strong nominations, Teagan’s internationally recognized scholarship stood out for its productivity, domestic and international impact, and its influence on undergraduate and graduate students at SUNY Cortland and worldwide,” said Ann McClellan, provost and vice president for academic affairs.
As part of the endowed award, Bradway will present a lecture on her scholarly work Thursday, May 1, as part of Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference, SUNY Cortland’s annual celebration of student research and creativity.
The talk, at 4 p.m. in the Sperry Center Hobson Lecture Hall, is free and open to the public.
The award is given to an outstanding SUNY Cortland faculty or professional staff member for their record of research achievements. In addition to scholarly productivity and publication in journals, evidence for research achievements may include accomplishments in the creative and performing arts. The awardee is recommended by the Faculty Research Committee and selected by the provost based upon at least five years of research-related activities at Cortland.
Bradway previously was honored with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and the SUNY Cortland Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenure-Track Faculty.
A graduate of West Chester University, she earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in literatures in English from Rutgers University.
Since joining the Cortland’s English Department in 2014, Bradway has released three published textbooks on the ways LGBTQIA+ people write and read literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Her work includes her own book on Queer Experimental Literature (2017). She is co-editor of two collections including, 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.
In addition, Bradway is the author of dozens of articles in national and international journals, including PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association of America.
Her important work has also had a global impact, as reflected by invited talks at University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, University College Dublin in Ireland, University of Sydney in Australia, University of Konstanz in Germany, University of Passau in Germany, and Durham University in United Kingdom.
An outstanding mentor — a key aspect of the DiNardo Waring Award — while at Cortland, she has directed 15 undergraduate and graduate thesis projects in English, the Honors Program and in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She also has served on external thesis and dissertation committees in the U.S. and abroad. As graduate coordinator for SUNY Cortland’s M.A. in English, Bradway has mentored at least six cohorts through the process of proposing and presenting their original research at regional and national conferences. She has served as an important mentor and speaker for SUNY Cortland’s Pride Club as well.
Bradway was the Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies at the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney in 2024. She will be one of six Society for the Humanities Fellows next year at Cornell University, where she will provide lectures, teach and complete her latest book.
The Dr. Peter A. DiNardo ’68 and Judith Waring Outstanding Achievement in Research Award is named in honor of the late Peter A. DiNardo ’68, a widely respected clinical psychologist and SUNY distinguished teaching professor, and Judith Waring. The endowed award’s creation in 2015 replaced the university’s Outstanding Achievement in Research Award, which had been presented since 2004. DiNardo-Waring Award honorees committed to a campus named lecture, first tied to Transformations in 2022.
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Teagan Bradway's 2017 textbook
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Teagan Bradway's co-authored collection with Elizabeth Freeman
Teagan Bradway's co-edited collection with E.L. McCallum