Elizabeth Freeman | |
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Born | 1966 |
Died | May/June 2024 (aged 57) |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (MA, PhD), Oberlin College (BA) |
Known for | Beside You in Time (2019); Time Binds (2010); The Wedding Complex (2002); Queer Kinship (2022). |
Partner | Candace Moore |
Awards | Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature (2014). |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Queer Studies, American Literature |
Institutions | University of California, Davis, Sarah Lawrence College |
Thesis | The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern American culture |
Doctoral advisor | Lauren Berlant, Bill Brown |
Elizabeth Freeman (1966 – May/June 2024) was an English professor at the University of California, Davis, and before that Sarah Lawrence College. Freeman specialized in American literature and gender/sexuality/queer studies. [1] She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. [2]
Freeman completed her bachelor's degree in English at Oberlin College in 1989, followed by an MA and PhD at the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1996 respectively. Freeman's doctoral dissertation was entitled The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern American culture and was supervised by Dr. Lauren Berlant and Dr. Bill Brown. [3] Freeman was an 'Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities' at the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted research for her work on weddings and taught undergraduate English classes. [4]
Freeman researched subjects within Queer studies, which she personally believed was defined by sex while accepting a broad definition for the term - including those who had a different approach. [5] She edited a book on Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form with Teagan Bradway. [6] Her article “Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood” received the 2014 Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature. [7]
Freeman was co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies from 2011 until 2017. [8] According to a book review by Ry Montgommery at the London School of Economics, Freeman's work took a "disruptive and inventive approach to questions of kinship, (post)coloniality and queerness". [9]
Freeman's attention to Queer theory developed from her engagement with AIDS activism in the early 1990s. [10] Freeman died of cancer in June 2024, at the age of 57. [11]
Elizabeth Freeman | |
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Born | 1966 |
Died | May/June 2024 (aged 57) |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (MA, PhD), Oberlin College (BA) |
Known for | Beside You in Time (2019); Time Binds (2010); The Wedding Complex (2002); Queer Kinship (2022). |
Partner | Candace Moore |
Awards | Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature (2014). |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Queer Studies, American Literature |
Institutions | University of California, Davis, Sarah Lawrence College |
Thesis | The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern American culture |
Doctoral advisor | Lauren Berlant, Bill Brown |
Elizabeth Freeman (1966 – May/June 2024) was an English professor at the University of California, Davis, and before that Sarah Lawrence College. Freeman specialized in American literature and gender/sexuality/queer studies. [1] She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. [2]
Freeman completed her bachelor's degree in English at Oberlin College in 1989, followed by an MA and PhD at the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1996 respectively. Freeman's doctoral dissertation was entitled The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern American culture and was supervised by Dr. Lauren Berlant and Dr. Bill Brown. [3] Freeman was an 'Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities' at the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted research for her work on weddings and taught undergraduate English classes. [4]
Freeman researched subjects within Queer studies, which she personally believed was defined by sex while accepting a broad definition for the term - including those who had a different approach. [5] She edited a book on Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form with Teagan Bradway. [6] Her article “Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood” received the 2014 Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature. [7]
Freeman was co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies from 2011 until 2017. [8] According to a book review by Ry Montgommery at the London School of Economics, Freeman's work took a "disruptive and inventive approach to questions of kinship, (post)coloniality and queerness". [9]
Freeman's attention to Queer theory developed from her engagement with AIDS activism in the early 1990s. [10] Freeman died of cancer in June 2024, at the age of 57. [11]