Preston Stone
Preston Taylor Stone (he/they) is a lecturer originally from the ancestral homeland of the Pedee Indians. His academic interests are at the intersection of American literary and cultural studies, broadly defined, queer studies, and writing and rhetoric. His current research projects concern
- the application of generative AI technologies in college writing classrooms;
- how the horror genre is being reclaimed by Indigenous creatives to queer settler colonial paradigms; and
- the queer possibilities of “speculative AI.”
He has experience teaching critical and comparative ethnic studies (Stanford University, Santa Clara University); first-year composition (Santa Clara University, University of Miami, Miami-Dade College); and American literary and cultural studies (University of Miami, Miami-Dade College).
Stone's academic and creative writing have appeared or are forthcoming in Studies in American Fiction, South Carolina Review, The Moth, New Reader Magazine, and other venues.
Academic interests
- LGBTQ Studies
- Ethnic Studies, especially Black and Indigenous studies
- post-45 American literature
- writing studies
Recent Publications
- One and the same”: Morrison’s Queer Phenomenology in Sula. (Originally appeared in Studies in American Fiction, vol. 49, no. 2, Fall 2022, pp. 249-270. https://doi.org/10.1353/saf.2022.a920140).
- Ontology of Desire. Bottlecap Press, 2023.
- "Blessed" and "The ghost," Eunoia Review, 2023.
- "Two Dead, One Buried." Sinking City 7, 2019.