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Skidmore College
English Department

Mason StokesMason Stokes

Professor

B.A., University of South Carolina
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Virginia

Office: Palamountain 308
Phone: (518) 580-5184
Email: mstokes@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • African-American Literature and Culture
  • Queer Literature and Theory
  • American Literature, Civil War to the present
  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity
  • History and Theory of Sexuality

Courses Taught:

  • EN 105: "Race," Writing, and Difference
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 226: Introduction to American Literature
  • EN 227: Introduction to African-American Literature
  • EN 324: American Fictions
  • EN 327: Twentieth-Century African-American Novels
  • EN 338: Queer Fictions
  • EN 363: Thinking Heterosexuality
  • EN 375: Narrative and Heterosexuality
  • EN 375: Toni Morrison
  • SSP 100: Sexualities/Textualities

Selected Publications

Books:

  • All the Truth I Can Stand: A Novel, Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers, forthcoming Fall 2024
  • Saving Julian: A Novel. Wilde City Press, 2014. (republished in the UK by Pride Publishing)
  • The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. Durham: Duke UP, 2001.

Articles and Essays:

  • 鈥渀A Brutal, Indecent Spectacle鈥: Heterosexuality, Futurity, and Go Tell It on the Mountain.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Modern Fiction Studies 62:2 (Summer 2016): 292-306.  
  • 鈥溾 [Invited Op-Ed].  The Chronicle of Higher Education (28 Sept. 2015).  Web and Print.
  • 鈥渀鈥 [Personal Essay].  Bloom (21 Aug. 2015): n. pag.  Web.
  • 鈥溾 [Personal Essay]. Colorado Review 42.2 (Summer 2015): 91-107. (Selected for inclusion in Best American Essays 2016)
  • "鈥 [Op-Ed].  The Chronicle of Higher Education (29 May 2014).  Web.
  • "There is Heterosexuality: Jessie Fauset, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Problem of Desire."  African American Review 44:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 67-83. 
  •  鈥淔ather of the Bride: Du Bois and the Making of Black Heterosexuality.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois.  Ed. Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum.  Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2007.  289-316.
  •  鈥淲e Are Family: Michael Cunningham鈥檚 Specimen Days.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Salmagundi 153-154 (Winter-Spring 2007): 175-83. 
  •  鈥淲hite Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Straight Man鈥檚 Burden.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Thinking Straight: The Power, the Promise, and the Paradox of Heterosexuality.  Ed. Chris Ingraham.  New York: Routledge, 2005.  131-149.
  •  鈥淪ay My Name.鈥&苍产蝉辫; American Literary History 17.1 (2005): 171-182.
  •  Rev. of Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent, by Richard Bruce Nugent.  Callaloo 26.3 (2003): 908-13.
  •  鈥淪trange Fruits: Rethinking the Gay Twenties.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Transition12.2 (2002): 56-79.
  • 鈥淪omeone鈥檚 in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall,鈥 American Quarterly 50.4 (1998): 718-44.