Mason Stokes
Associate Professor and Chair

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

Office: Palamountain 313
Phone:(518) 580-5150
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:

• SSP 100: Sexualities/Textualities
• EN 105: "Race," Writing, and Difference
• EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
• 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

Selected Publications:

• "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.
  
•  “Father of the Bride: Du Bois and the Making of Black Heterosexuality.”  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.
•  “We Are Family: Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days.”  Salmagundi 153-154 (Winter-Spring 2007): 175-83. 
•  “White Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Straight Man’s Burden.”  Thinking Straight: The Power, the Promise, and the Paradox of Heterosexuality.  Ed. Chris Ingraham.  New York: Routledge, 2005.  131-149.
•  “Say My Name.”  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.
•  “Strange Fruits: Rethinking the Gay Twenties.” Transition 12.2 (2002): 56-79.  
•  The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy.  Durham: Duke UP, 2001.
• Rev. of Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture, by Valerie Babb.  American Literature 71.4 (December 1999): 822-3.
• “Someone’s in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall,” American Quarterly 50.4 (1998): 718-44.