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Kathryn Bond
Stockton

Professor of English: Kathryn Bond Stockton

Salt Lake City academic Kathryn Bond Stockton leads in researching queer theory, especially in relation to race and religion. After earning a Master of Divinity degree at Yale University Divinity School, Kathryn Bond Stockton initially began her scholarly research in feminist theory and in English literature while a fellow at Brown University. Specializing in British literature, Kathryn Bond Stockton began taking an approach on sexuality through the means of desire in context of religion, with her first literature paper on desire George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Kathryn Bond Stockton began working on queer theory while beginning as an instructor at the University of Utah. At first, Kathryn Bond Stockton’s papers focused on the works of famous American author Toni Morrison, and how queer theory applies to them. Throughout the 1990s, Kathryn Bond Stockton expanded her studies to many aspects of queer theory, from divinity and religion to existentialism and postmodernism, to early lesbian fiction. All the while, Kathryn Bond Stockton never strayed far from her studies of race, research that lead to her 2006 book, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer.” Over the course of the last 13 years, Kathryn Bond Stockton has focused on the concept of the queer child and how these children may be raised in environments that may not validate or recognize their particular needs. Among the controversial aspects that Kathryn Bond Stockton has researched as a result of this effort include atypical sexualities, masochism, and pedophilia, and her research questions the concept of “normality” in general. Much of this research focused on the “queering” of children, in contrast to the concept of a homosexual child, and led to Kathryn Bond Stockton’s most recent book, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Currently, Kathryn Bond Stockton teaches many courses on gender, race, and queer theory at the University of Utah, where she continues her own research in queer studies, religion, and literature.


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  		•  University of Utah 1987
    Professor of English
    Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, 2010 Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, 2007 Crompton-Noll Prize: Best Essay in Gay Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association Invited Core Faculty Member, Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory Senior Research Fellow, The Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University NOW Lifetime Achievement Award YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication Presidential Teaching Scholar Award for Teaching Excellence in the University Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities Internal Faculty Fellow, University of Utah Humanities Center Thomas Dee Endowment Grant for the Enhancement of Teaching in the Humanities and Fine Arts Brown University: Annenberg Fellow University Fellowship Yale University Divinity School: Edward Ashley Walker Prize (highest academic standing) Mary Cady Tew Prize (scholarly studies) Hooker Prize (theological studies) Wolcott Calkins Prize (preaching) Religion and the Arts Prize (highest academic standing) Oliver Ellsworth Daggett Prize (character, diligence, and service to the school) University of Connecticut: University Scholar (highest academic honor) Dorothy Culp Prize (highest academic standing in Liberal Arts and Sciences) John Torrey Prize (highest academic standing among Phi Beta Kappas) Phi Beta Kappa National Alpha Lambda Delta (one of twelve national scholars chosen)