TYLER BRADWAY
State University of New York at Cortland
English Department
Old Main 114 C, Cortland, NY 13045
[email protected]
Employment
2014-present: Assistant Professor
State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland
English Department
2013-2014: Postdoctoral Fellow
Haverford College Writing Program
2010:
Visiting Graduate Instructor
Rutgers University Newark English Department
2007-2013: Instructor and Teaching Assistant
Rutgers University English and Women’s and Gender Studies Departments
Education
Ph.D. Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2013
M.A., Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2009
Major List: Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature
Minor List: Witnessing, Testimony, and the Poetics of Trauma
Minor List: New Media and Theories of Technology
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University
B.A., summa cum laude, English and Women’s Studies, West Chester University, 2006
Dissertation
“Bad Readers, Perverse Dreams: Affect and the Politics of Reading in Queer
Experimental Writing.”
Director: Marianne DeKoven
Readers: Richard Dienst, John McClure, Elizabeth Grosz (Duke)
Books
Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading
 Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan for the Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory
and Literary Criticism Series, edited by Adam Frank and Joel Faflak.
Edited Volumes
Ed., with E.L. McCallum, After Queer Studies: Literary Theory and Critical
Interpretation.
 Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction.”
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 48.1 (March 2015): 183200.
“‘Permeable We!’: Affect and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity in Eve Sedgwick’s A
Dialogue on Love.” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 19.1 (December 2012):
79-110.
Non-Refereed Essays:
“Critical Immodesty and Other Grammars for Aesthetic Agency.” Stanford University
Arcade: Literature, Humanities, & the World. 16 March 2015. Web.
<http://arcade.stanford.edu/content/critical-immodesty-and-other-grammars-aestheticagency>.
Book Chapters
“Literature in an Age of Plague: The AIDS Epidemic.” American Literature in
Transition, 1980-1990. Ed. Quentin Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
 Under contract.
Book Reviews
Tyson E. Lewis and Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural
Studies in a Posthuman Age (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), symplokē 19.1-2
(January 2012): 392-395.
“How to Do History with Pleasure.” Solicited review of Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds:
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. (Durham and London: Duke UP, 2010).
Postmodern Culture 22.1 (September 2011).
Dwight A. McBride, Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality
(New York: New York UP, 2005), College Literature 33.4 (October 2006): 223-25.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
Faculty Development Grant, SUNY Cortland Faculty Development Committee 2015
Campus Artist and Lecture Series Grant, SUNY Cortland CALS Committee 2015
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Haverford College, 2013-2014
Catherine Moynahan Prize for Best Essay on a Literary Topic, Rutgers English, 2013
Spencer L. Eddy Prize for Best Publication, Rutgers English, 2013
Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers English Department, 2011-2013
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, US Department of Education, 2007-2011
Mellon Research Grant, Rutgers English Department, 2011
Archive: William S. Burroughs’ Papers, Ohio State University
Rutgers Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, 2008, 2010, 2013
Mellon Research Grant, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, 2010
Archive: Kathy Acker Papers 1972-1997, Duke University
Mellon Summer Grant Award, Rutgers English Department, 2010
Conference Travel Award, Rutgers Graduate School, 2008
Northeast Modern Language Association Travel Grant, 2008
Mellon Fellowship to attend Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, 2007
Summer Fellowship, Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, 2007
Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers English Department, 2006-2007
Colleges of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Student, West Chester University, 2006
Outstanding English Major, English Association of PA State Universities, 2005
Research Consortium Grant, West Chester University, 2005
Swope Foundation Scholarship, 2005
Schock Foundation Scholarship, 2002-2006
Presentations
“The Queerness of Creativity.” American Comparative Literature Association, Boston,
MA, March 2016.
“Bad Writing: Queer Experimentalism at the Limits of the LGBT Canon.” Modern
Language Association, Austin, TX, January 2016.
“Waste Products: Bottom Modernism and Excremental Aesthetics.” Modernist Studies
Association, Boston, MA, November 2015.
“Reading in Crisis: Queer Hermeneutics in Samuel Delany’s Para-Academic AIDS
Fiction.” American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA, March 2015.
“Trigger Warning: Kathy Acker's Visceral Pedagogy.” Modern Language Association,
Vancouver, CA, January 2015.
“Uncritically Queer.” New Literary History Seminar on Post Critical Interpretation.
University of Virginia, October 2014.
“The Sixties and the Politics of Non-Dogmatic Pedagogy.” Modernism and Globalization
Seminar Series: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature. Rutgers University, April 2014.
“The Queer History of Obscenity.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, 2014
“Refractory Reading: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Interpretation of Cultural Agency.”
Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January 2014.
“A Troubling Sight: Metafictional Critique and Dystopian Affect in Jonathan Lethem’s
Speculative Fiction.” American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, Canada,
April 2013.
“‘Permeable We!’: Intersubjectivity and Relational Affect in Contemporary Queer
Memoir.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 2012.
“Feeling at the End of the World: Affect in Postmodern Feminist Dystopias.” Modern
Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 2012.
“An Ethics of Reparation: Melanie Klein and Redefining Social Justice in Queer Theory.”
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, New Brunswick, NJ, October,
2010.
“Kathy Acker and the Limits of Conceptual Writing.” American Comparative Literature
Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2010.
“Jeanette Winterson, Ethics, and Literature as ‘Energetic Space.’” Northeast Modern
Language Association, Montreal, Canada, April 2010.
“Art in Alice Walker’s Meridian, or How to Let an Idea Penetrate Your Life.” Rutgers
English Graduate Symposium, Rutgers University, April 2009.
“Witnessing in a State of Exception: Angel Island and Aesthetics in China Men.”
American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, April 2008.
“Freak Movement: Disability, Display, and the ‘Problem’ of Circulation in Freaks.”
Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, NY, April 2008.
“Queer Immigration: Rights, Law, and Transnational Politics.” New Jersey Public
Research Interest Group Roundtable, Rutgers University, April 2007.
“Digital Dykes: Lesbian Body Simulation in Cyberqueer Space.” Pennsylvania Colleges
English Association, Harrisburg, PA, March 2005.
“Grinning Grotesque: Commodifying the Joker as Aesthetic Serial Killer.” Research
Symposium Award Presentation. West Chester University, March 2004.
Conferences, Panels, and Seminars Organized
Panel Chair and Seminar Co-Organizer, with E.L. McCallum. “Are We Queer Yet?”
American Comparative Literature Association, Boston, MA, March 2016.
Event Organizer. “Graphic Novels and Multi-Ethnic Literature.” Public conversation and
workshop with the graphic novelist, Ethan Young, author of Nanjing: The Burning City.
SUNY Cortland, April 2016.
Panel Chair. “Modernist Dirt.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Boston, MA,
November 2015.
Event Organizer for Campus Artist and Lecture Series. Public lecture and poetry reading
with Michael D. Snediker, SUNY Cortland, April 2015.
Event Organizer. “Queer Time,” featuring a public lecture and student workshops with
Distinguished Visitor Elizabeth Freeman. Haverford College, April 2014.
Seminar Co-Coordinator (with Paul Farber). "Thesis Thursday" Series for Undergraduate
Thesis Writers. Haverford College, Spring 2014.
Panel Chair and Organizer. “Critical Feelings: Redefining Cultural Agency in Affect
Theory.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, PA, April 2014.
Panel Organizer. “Reading Affect in 20th Century Literature.” Modern Language
Association, Seattle, WA, January 2012.
Conference Co-Organizer (with Philip Longo). “Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st
Centuries: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference,” featuring keynote speaker
Donna V. Jones. Rutgers University, February 2011,
Panel Chair and Organizer. “The Ethical Turn to Literature.” Northeast Modern
Language Association, Montreal, Canada, April 2010.
Panel Organizer. “The Ethical Turn to Literature 2: Genre, the Reader, and the
Political.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal, Canada, April
2010.
Roundtable Organizer. “Mapping a Feminist Poetics.” Feminist Studies Group, Rutgers
University, Spring 2008.
Roundtable Organizer. “Changing the Subject: Posthumanism in Contemporary
Studies.” Twentieth Century and Contemporary Studies Group, Rutgers University,
Fall 2007.
Panel Chair. Graduate English Symposium. Rutgers University, April 2007.
Professional Service
Referee, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 2015
Teaching Interests
Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
Queer Theory and LGBTQ Literature and Culture
Literary and Critical Theory
Affect Studies
New Media and Popular Culture
Experimental Writing and the Avant-Garde
Courses Taught
Graduate Seminars
Literary Criticism and Theory, SUNY Cortland, Fall 2015
Queer Theory, SUNY Cortland, Spring 2015
Postmodern American Fiction, Rutgers Newark, Fall 2010
Undergraduate Courses
Literature and Sexuality, SUNY Cortland, Spring 2016
Introduction to Film, SUNY Cortland, Spring 2016
Literary Theory: Writing about Literature, SUNY Cortland, Spring 2015
Postmodern Fiction, SUNY Cortland, Fall 2014
Multicultural Literature, SUNY Cortland, Fall 2014 and Fall 2015
Written on the Body: Sexuality and Narrative, Haverford College, Spring 2014
User Generated Content: Digital Popular Culture, Haverford College, Fall 2013
Expository Writing, Rutgers English, Spring 2012 and Fall 2007
Science Fiction and Globalization, Rutgers English, Fall 2011
Digital Popular Culture, Rutgers English Summer 2011
Testimony in Twentieth-Century Global Literature, Rutgers English, Summer 2009
Contemporary Feminist Theory, Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies, Summer 2008
Gender and Consumption, Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies, Winter 2008
Teaching Assistant:
Twenty-First Century Literature, Richard Miller, Spring 2013
Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Richard Miller, Fall 2012
Narrative: Principles of Literary Study, Richard Dienst, Fall 2008
University Service
English Department Curriculum Committee, SUNY Cortland (Fall 2015-present)
LGBTQ Faculty Committee, SUNY Cortland (Fall 2014 – present)
Center for Ethics, Justice, and Peace Committee, SUNY Cortland (Fall 2014 – present)
References
Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University
Richard Dienst, Rutgers University
John McClure, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University
Janet Larson, Rutgers Newark
Richard Miller, Rutgers University
Further references available upon request