Program Description
About this event:
When was the "first" LGBTQ+ film?
How has censorship shaped the history of queer representation?
Why do LGBTQ+ audiences adore camp, horror, and other so-called "low brow" genres?
This interactive lecture will answer these and many more questions, giving attendees an accessible introduction to some of the major themes and figures of queer cinema. No prior knowledge is needed!
About Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway (she/they) is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and a Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University for 2025-26. 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.
website: Teagan Bradway