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
Highlighted Publications
Somerville, S. B. (2000). Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. (Series Q). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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