mason stokes
Professor of english
Mason Stokes
Mason Stokes teaches courses in African American literature and queer literature and
theory. His writing ranges across genres and subjects, and includes The Color of Sex:
Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy, a study of white-supremacist
fiction and African American responses; Saving Julian, a novel about ex-gay conversion
therapy; 鈥淣amesake,鈥� a personal essay that was chosen by Jonathan Franzen for inclusion
in The Best American Essays 2016; as well as numerous essays in academic journals.
Mason spends much of his time both in the classroom and on the page, thinking about
the ways in which we make space for ourselves in relation to larger structural forces鈥攊n
particular, whiteness and heterosexuality.