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'{{Short description|American professor}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Elizabeth Freeman | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | death_date = 2024 | birth_place = | death_place = | citizenship = American | nationality = American | fields = [[Queer Studies]], [[American Literature]] | work_institutions = [[University of California, Davis]], [[Sarah Lawrence College]] | alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]] (MA, PhD), [[Oberlin College]] (BA) | thesis_title = The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern American culture | thesis_url = | doctoral_advisor = [[Lauren Berlant]], Bill Brown | doctoral_students = | known_for = Beside You in Time (2019); Time Binds (2010); The Wedding Complex (2002); Queer Kinship (2022). | awards = Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature (2014). | footnotes = | spouse = | module = | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Elizabeth Freeman''' 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.<ref name="UC">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Freeman |url=https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/esfreema |website=UC Davis |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref> She also served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at University of California, Davis.<ref name="Critical">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Freeman |url=https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/book_review/author/elizabeth_freeman/ |website=Critical Inquiry |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref> ==Education== 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.<ref>Freeman, E. S. (1996). The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern american culture (Order No. 9636786). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304279511).</ref> 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.<ref>https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/elizabeth-freeman</ref> Freeman's attention to Queer theory developed from her engagement with [[AIDS]] activism in the early 1990s.<ref>https://slate.com/business/2017/12/how-does-queer-theorist-elizabeth-freeman-work.html</ref> ==Career== 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brogan |first=Jacob |date=2017-12-03 |title=How Does a Queer Theorist Work? |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/business/2017/12/how-does-queer-theorist-elizabeth-freeman-work.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |issn=1091-2339}}</ref> She edited a book on ''Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form'' with Tyler Bradway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Queer Kinship by Tyler Bradway & Elizabeth Freeman (Paperback) |url=https://www.queerlit.co.uk/products/queer-kinship-race-sex-belonging-form |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=Queer Lit |language=en}}</ref> Her article “Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s ''Nightwood''” received the 2014 Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in ''American Literature''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Press |first=Duke University |date=2015-01-22 |title=Congratulations to Foerster Prize Winners! |url=https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/congratulations-to-foerster-prize-winners/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=Duke University Press News |language=en}}</ref> Freeman was co-editor of ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' from 2011 until 2017.<ref>https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/farewell-to-elizabeth-freeman/</ref> ==Biography== Freeman died of cancer in June, 2024 at the age of 58.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sell |first=Laura |date=2024-06-03 |title=Farewell to Elizabeth Freeman |url=https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/farewell-to-elizabeth-freeman/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=Duke University Press News |language=en}}</ref> ==Education== *Ph.D., [[University of Chicago]], 1996 *M.A., University of Chicago, 1991 *B.A. with Highest Honors in English, [[Oberlin College]], 1989<ref name="UC" /> ==Publications== ===Books=== *''The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture'' (Duke UP, 2002) *''Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories'' (Duke UP, 2010) *''Beside You in Time: Sense-Methods and Queer Sociabilities in Nineteenth-Century America'' (Duke UP, 2019)<ref name="UC" /> ==References== <references /> ==External links== *{{Google Scholar ID|fzf9V5sAAAAJ}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Freeman, Elizabeth}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Sarah Lawrence College faculty]] [[Category:University of California, Davis faculty]] [[Category:University of Chicago alumni]] [[Category:Oberlin College alumni]] [[Category:American university and college faculty deans]] [[Category:American women non-fiction writers]] [[Category:Queer theorists]] {{US-academic-bio-stub}}'