Research Interests
African American Studies, Film/Visual Culture, Gender/Sexuality Studies, American, later, Theory & Criticism
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, African American Studies
Chair, Gender and Women's Studies
Recent Publications
Somerville, S. B. (Accepted/In press). Citizenship. In K. P. Murphy, J. Ruiz, & D. Serlin (Eds.), The Routledge History of American Sexuality Routledge.
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.
Somerville, S. B. (2015). Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body. In A. Clark, & E. Williams (Eds.), The History of Sexuality: The Construction of Sexual Knowledge (Vol. 1). (Critical concepts in historical studies). Routledge.
Manalansan, M. F., Nadeau, C., Rodriguez, R. T., & Somerville, S. B. (2014). Queering the middle: Race, Region, and a Queer Midwest. GLQ, 20(1-2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2370270