Curriculum Vitae

Preston Taylor Stone (he/him)

PhD Candidate in the Department of English
ptstone@miami.edu / prestontaylorstone.com / 864.401.6676

EDUCATION

University of Miami, 2020-2023
PhD – Literary and Cultural Studies
Areas of Focus: Queer Theory (especially Queer of Color Critique); Multiethnic American Literary and Cultural Studies; qualifying examinations passed with Merit
Committee: Lindsay Thomas (Chair), Brenna Munro, Marlon Moore

University of Miami, 2018-2020
M.A. – English

Clemson University, 2013-2017
B.A. – English, Minor – Philosophy

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Queer of Color Critique; Cultural Studies; Critical Race Theory & Black Studies; Transnational American Studies; American Literature, broadly defined; Comparative Ethnic Studies, especially within Native American Studies; Critical Disability Studies (CDS)

PUBLICATIONS

Academic

“‘One and the same’: Morrison’s Queer Phenomenology in Sula ” – Studies in American Fiction (forthcoming)
“She will be right”: Queer Haitian Transcorporeality in “Of Ghosts and Shadows” by Roxane Gay – Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming)
Book Review “Toward a Queer/Blind Poetics: Kathi Wolfe’s Love and Kumquats” – South Carolina Review 52.2 (Spring 2020)
“At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie” – Empty Mirror (March 2019)

Literary

“Gesture”; “Other Rooms, Other Voices”; “Monk Ballad” – New Reader Magazine 3, no. 11 (Sept 2020)
“Two Dead, One Buried” – Sinking City 7 (Fall 2019)
“Pool dream” – Flash Fiction Magazine (Jan 2017)
“Freedom” – Mosaic Art and Literary Journal 56 (2016)
“Obsessed with Angels”; “Love song” – The Chronicle (Fall 2016)
“Fathers and son”; “Save me, momma”; “the dirt sestina” – Scarlet Leaf Review (Sept 2016)
“Provence, 1923” – The Moth 26 (Aug 2016)
“Jeremy” – Scarlet Leaf Review (Aug 2016)
“Economy” – Poetry Quarterly (Summer 2015)
“I Hear Old Main” – The Chronicle (Spring 2015)

As Editor

KAIROS vol. I, Issues 1-3
KAIROS vol. II, Issues 1-3
KAIROS vol. III, Issues 1-3
KAIROS vol. IV, Issues 1-3
KAIROS vol. V, Issues 1-3
KAIROS vol. VI, Issues 1-3

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Unless otherwise noted, class taught was 1 section of 3 credits and I was instructor of record

University of Miami

Fall 2019: English Composition I (‘Migration & Citizenship’), Instructor of Record
Spring 2020: English Composition II (‘Power, Race, and Migration’), Instructor of Record
Fall 2020: English Composition I (‘Migration & Citizenship’) & English Composition II (‘Black Feminism: Theory, Method, Practice’), Instructor of Record
Summer 2021: Basic Academic Writing (‘Migration & Citizenship’), Instructor of Record
Spring 2021: English Composition II (2 sections) (‘Marxism in America: What It Is…and Isn’t’), Instructor of Record
Fall 2021: English Composition II (2 sections) (‘Marxism in America: Theory, Method, Culture’), Instructor of Record
Spring 2022: English Composition II (2 sections) (‘Ghosts of American Imperialism’), Instructor of Record
Summer 2022: Basic Academic Writing (‘Migration & Citizenship’), Instructor of Record

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Fall 2020: “‘Who is Looting Whom?’: James Baldwin and the Right to Riot” (1 section), Instructor of Record
Spring 2021: “The Harlem Renaissance” & “Introduction to Critical Theory”, Instructor of Record
Summer 2021: “Black Feminism: Theory, Method, Practice” & “Migration and Citizenship: History, Theory, and Literature”, Instructor of Record
Fall 2021: Latin American Studies I & Latin American Studies II, Instructor of Record
Spring 2022: Native American Studies I & Native American Studies II, Instructor of Record
Summer 2022: Marxism in America: Theory, History, Culture, Instructor of Record

Miami-Dade College (Wolfson Campus)

Fall 2022: English Composition II (‘America’s Ghosts’), Instructor of Record; Introduction to Literature (‘Ghost Literature from Morrison to Nguyen’), Instructor of Record; Introduction to Creative Writing, Instructor of Record
Summer 2022: English Composition II (‘Migration & Citizenship’), Instructor of Record
Spring 2022: English Composition I (‘Migration & Citizenship’) & English Composition II (‘Ghosts of American Imperialism’), Instructor of Record
Fall 2021: English Composition I (2 sections) (‘Migration & Citizenship’), Instructor of Record

PEDAGOGICAL & INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING

CAN1001-1005: Introduction to Canvas LMS (Summer-Fall 2022), Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning, Miami-Dade College
BB1001-1003: Introduction to Blackboard LMS (Summer 2021), Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning, Miami-Dade College,
Graduate-level Practicum in Literary Studies (Spring 2019), University of Miami
Graduate-level Practicum in Writing Studies (Fall 2018), University of Miami

PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES

“Ghosting and the Spectral State: Deviance and Spectrality in American Protest Cultures.” Q-Grad 2022: Annual Queer Graduate Student Research Conference, LGBTQ Studies Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Queer Temporalities: Resisting Straight Forwards, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, May 27, 2022.
“Meta/Queer Time: The Queer Formalism of Toni Morrison’s Sula.” Annual Graduate Student Conference, Modern Languages and Literatures Department of University of Miami. Seeing More Queerly in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Gender, Feminism and Queer Theories and Practices in Our Contemporary World, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Feb 21, 2020.
“The Sentence Queers Modernity: What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell.” SAMLA 91: Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships, Atlanta, GA, Nov 8-10, 2019.
Special Panel Chair. SAMLA 91: Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships, Atlanta, GA, Nov 8-10, 2019.
“Las Vegas and Performative Capitalism.” Marxist Literary Group Annual Conference: Intelligent Idealisms, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 22-26, 2019.
“Spectral Knowing in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘Black-Eyed Women.’” MELUS 2019: Underground Histories, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Mar 21-24, 2019.
“Refugee-as-Ghost: Metaphorizing Trauma and Borders in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Fiction.” Annual Graduate Student Conference, Modern Languages and Literatures Department of University of Miami. Transnational Futures: (Re)Imagining Diaspora, Borders, Politics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Feb 22, 2019.
“On the Need to Historicize the American Literary Economy.” SAMLA 90: Fighters from the Margins: Socio-Political Activists and Their Allies, Birmingham, AL, Nov 2-4, 2018.

AWARDS & GRANTS

2021-2022 American Studies Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Miami
2021-2022 Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of Miami
2021 Digital Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Miami
2019-2020 Academic Excellence, Leadership, and Service Award, University of Miami
2016 Writers’ Harvest Student Reading Award in Poetry, Clemson University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICES

Chair, English Graduate Organization (2022-2023)
Curator, “Pink/Grey Literature: Queer Ephemera and the Ephemeral Queer,” exhibition at the University of Miami Special Collections at the Kislak Center
Critical Cultural Studies (CCS) graduate collective, Department of English at the University of Miami, founding body member and current co-convener
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Member & Reader
University of Miami Graduate Student Association, Senator for the PhD program in English, Founder & Chairperson for the Committee of Social and Civic Engagement
University of Miami Graduate Student Association, Parliamentarian & Chairperson for the Committee on Graduate Student Organizations (COGSO)

COMPETENCIES

TEFL/TESOL Certification: ITTT (120-hrs)
English Ability: Native language, fluent
Spanish Ability: Excellent written and reading skills, advanced verbal skills

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