contact information

email: mstokes@skidmore.edu
telephone: 518.580.5184
fax: 518.580.5189
office: palamountain 313

office hours

by appointment

specialties

african american literature and culture
gay and lesbian literature and queer 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 229: making american literature
en 310: the american novel
en 338: queer fictions
en 363: thinking heterosexuality
en 377: narrative and heterosexuality