I am presently the Helaine B. Allen and Cynthia L. Berenson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and affiliate of the Department of English at Brandeis University. My first book project is also supported by a 2025-2026 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Originally trained in comparative ethnic studies and queer theory, my research has always sought to use humanistic methods to resist ongoing infrastructures of power.
My work in writing studies and critical AI contributes to ongoing scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) by analyzing how to what extent generative AI (GAI) shapes writing practices. With particular focus on higher education pedagogy, I use cross-disciplinary methods in both theoretical and empirical research projects. I intend to demonstrate queer theory and ethnic studies offer important correctives to the hegemony of extractive white, Western epistemologies that dominate both the infrastructural and economic development of GAI and the prevailing models of higher education. My teaching, learning, and research reveal how historically marginalized perspectives reorient knowledge production toward more just and inclusive futures.
My work in literary and cultural studies analyzes a variety of cultural forms, including short fiction, poetry, and film as well as social media posts, visual art, and music videos. I intend to show that queer studies methods are vital to understanding contemporary society through comparative study across different genres, historical periods, and sociopolitical contexts. An indispensable knowledge formation, queer studies allows us to (re)imagine value formations beyond our current historical juncture.
My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in American Fiction, South Carolina Review, The Moth, New Reader Magazine, and other venues.
I hold a Ph.D. in English from the University of Miami (2023).
Creative Writing
My poetry chapbook Ontology of Desire was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. My poetry was previously awarded the First Annual Writers’ Harvest Student Reading Award from the Department of English at Clemson University. My other creative writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Chronicle, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Moth, Poetry Quarterly, and New Reader Magazine. I was a reader and blogger for Spry Literary Journal and Flash Fiction Editor for Crack the Spine Literary Magazine. Since 2016, I have been the Editor-in-Chief of KAIROS Literary Magazine, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization I co-founded while at Clemson University. KAIROS published four times annually, including a print paperback volume, and as a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). As of July 2023, KAIROS is on permanent hiatus.
Preston Taylor Stone, Ph.D. 