Elizabeth Freeman died unexpectedly. On Monday, June 3, 2024, her death was officially confirmed due to recent headlines proclaiming her passing. When word spread of her unexpected passing, many hearts were wounded. Many people have not held back from paying respect to Elizabeth Freeman and sending their sincere condolences to her family since the news of her passing broke. A professor at the University of California, Davis, Professor Freeman taught English. Her teaching career started at Sarah Lawrence College after she received her doctorate from the University of Chicago.
- Elizabeth Freeman Center
Who was Elizabeth Freeman?
Time Binds (2010), The Wedding Complex (2002), Beside You in Time (2019), a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Queer Kinship (2022), co-edited with Teagan Bradway, are among the books written by Freeman. She co-edited our publication GLQ from 2011 to 2017. She co-edited two journal special issues: Queer Temporalities (GLQ 13:2-3, 2007) and Crip Temporalities (SAQ 120:2, 2021). The Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay in American literature in 2014 went to her work, “Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” She wrote for many more journals and was friends with the Press. She completed a lot of peer reviews as well.
RIP, Elizabeth Freeman, dearest Gletha. Thank you for everything you brought to this world, especially the curiosity, kindness and care beneath all that brilliance. (Photo from the only time I got both Beth & Lauren Berlant to karaoke with at the worst place in Boston, MLA 2013) – Karen Tongson @inlandemperor
Elizabeth Freeman Cancer Battle
Throughout her cancer fight, Freeman made the effort to reach out to her friends on Facebook, suggesting that they get recommended colonoscopies and donate blood. Over the past several days, she has received a barrage of farewell notes and congratulations from her friends, coworkers, and students, many of whom are also authors for Duke University Press. We are sending our prayers to her loved ones and her family.
