Will Stockton
Professor and Chair
Contact
Department of English
Office: 802 Strode
Email: wstockt@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. English, Indiana University, Bloomington; M.A. English, Indiana University, Bloomington; B.A. English and Political Theory, University of Virginia
Research Interests
Renaissance Literature, Queer Studies
Will Stockton has published extensively on Renaissance literature and the history of sexuality. His monographs include Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy (Fordham University Press, 2017). Stockton has also co-edited two volumes: Backward Gaze: Queer Renaissance Historiography (Ashgate, 2009) and Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). His latest book, An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly (Routledge, 2022), serves as a guide to queer theory designed specifically for students of literature.
He is currently editing the Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Author. An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly. Routledge, 2022.
Translator. Operation on a Malignant Body / Operación al Cuerpo Enfermo, by Sergio Loo. The Operating System, 2019.
Author. Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy. Fordham University Press, 2017.
Co-editor. Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England, With James Bromley. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Author. Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Co-editor. Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze. With Vin Nardizzi and Stephen Guy-Bray. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2009.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
"Counting to One: 'One Flesh' Marriage in Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen." Shakespeare 27 July 2023.
“The Fierce Urgency of Now: Queer Theory, Presentism, and Romeo and Juliet.” A Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, Race, ed. Valerie Traub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 287-301.
“Chasing Chastity: The Case of Desdemona.” Rethinking Feminism: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Early Modern World. Eds. Ania Loomba and Melissa E. Sanchez. Farham: Ashgate, 2015. 195-211.
