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Siobhan B Somerville

Associate Professor

Research Interests

African American Studies, Film/Visual Culture, Gender/Sexuality Studies, American, later, Theory & Criticism

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, African American Studies

Highlighted Publications

Somerville, S. B. (2000). Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. (Series Q). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822378761

Somerville, S. B. (Ed.) (2020). The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies. (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699396

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Recent Publications

Somerville, S. B. (2020). Citizenship. In K. P. Murphy, J. Ruiz, & D. Serlin (Eds.), The Routledge History of American Sexuality (pp. 104-117). (Routledge Histories). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315637259-11

Somerville, S. B. (2020). Introduction. In S. B. Somerville (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (pp. 1-14). (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699396.002

Somerville, S. B. (Ed.) (2020). The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies. (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699396

Somerville, S. B. (2016). Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body. In A. L. Ferber, K. Holcomb, & T. Wentling (Eds.), Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The New Basics (3 ed.). Oxford University Press.

Somerville, S. B. (2015). Queer Loving. In A. Clark, & E. Williams (Eds.), The History of Sexuality: The Construction of Sexual Knowledge (Vol. 1). (Critical concepts in historical studies). Routledge.

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