Past Events

Past Events

Teagan Bradway Hurst Workshop - "How to Make Queer Kin"

Teagan Bradway is 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. She is the author of "Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading" (Palgrave, 2017) and she is currently completing a book on queer forms of engroupment and co-writing “Endless Love” with the late Elizabeth Freeman.
Hurst Lounge

Teagan Bradway Hurst Talk - "Bodies That Gather: How to Practice and Sustain Queer Kinship"

Teagan Bradway is 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. She is the author of "Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading" (Palgrave, 2017) and she is currently completing a book on queer forms of engroupment and co-writing “Endless Love” with the late Elizabeth Freeman.
Hurst Lounge

Eleanor Johnson Hurst Talk - "Writing Beyond the Discipline; Writing Beyond the University: How to take your Academic Training to the Public"

Eleanor Johnson is Professor of English at Columbia University. She has published three scholarly monographs on medieval literature, theology, and environmental history, all with University of Chicago: Practicing Literary Theory (2013), Staging Contemplation (2018), and the award-winning Waste and the Wasters (2023). Her newest work pivots to think about the history of women's rights and horror: her 2025 book Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (Simon and Schuster) analyzes the relationship between horror and women's liberation in the 1970s, and her forthcoming 2026 book Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women (Princeton) analyzes the long history of the demonization of women in Western culture. Her current books in progress center on Dante's Inferno and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Hurst Lounge | Duncker Hall

Eleanor Johnson Hurst Talk - "Scream with Me: How Horror does Politics"

Eleanor Johnson is Professor of English at Columbia University. She has published three scholarly monographs on medieval literature, theology, and environmental history, all with University of Chicago: Practicing Literary Theory (2013), Staging Contemplation (2018), and the award-winning Waste and the Wasters (2023). Her newest work pivots to think about the history of women's rights and horror: her 2025 book Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (Simon and Schuster) analyzes the relationship between horror and women's liberation in the 1970s, and her forthcoming 2026 book Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women (Princeton) analyzes the long history of the demonization of women in Western culture. Her current books in progress center on Dante's Inferno and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Hurst Lounge | Duncker Hall

Visiting Hurst Professor Hanif Abdurraqib Reading

Women's Formal Lounge

Visiting Hurst Professor Hanif Abdurraqib Craft Talk

Hurst Lounge

Visiting Hurst Professor Liz Howard Reading

Hurst Lounge

Visiting Hurst Professor Liz Howard Craft Talk

Hurst Lounge

Visiting Hurst Professor Joseph O'Neill Reading

Hurst Lounge

Visiting Hurst Professor Joseph O'Neill Craft Talk

Hurst Lounge

Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Reading

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall

Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Craft Lecture

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall

Visiting Hurst Professor Kim Fu Reading

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall

Visiting Hurst Professor Paul Lisicky Reading

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall

Visiting Hurst Professor Paul Lisicky Craft Lecture

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall