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*Kathryn Bond Stockton, “Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Queer Child: The Ghost, the Homosexual, the Freudian, the Innocent, and the Interval of Animal,” in [https://annas-archive.org/md5/94fe419787a6c760cd8a7c4b07428856 ''Curiouser: On The Queerness of Children''], eds. Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2004). | *Kathryn Bond Stockton, “Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Queer Child: The Ghost, the Homosexual, the Freudian, the Innocent, and the Interval of Animal,” in [https://annas-archive.org/md5/94fe419787a6c760cd8a7c4b07428856 ''Curiouser: On The Queerness of Children''], eds. Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2004). | ||
*Kathryn Bond Stockton, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/e899f32c65b2ada3cb26e5f378e09a9a ''The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century''] (Duke University Press: Durham, 2009). | *Kathryn Bond Stockton, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/e899f32c65b2ada3cb26e5f378e09a9a ''The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century''] (Duke University Press: Durham, 2009). | ||
*Stockton, (2016). The Queer Child Now and Its Paradoxical Global Effects, in ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies''. | *Stockton, (2016). The Queer Child Now and Its Paradoxical Global Effects, in ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies''. | ||
Revision as of 21:16, 30 September 2025
Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah, where she teaches queer theory, theories of race and racialized gender, and twentieth-century literature and film. Two of her books — Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child (Duke University Press) — were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. In addition, her book Making Out (NYU Press) was a 2020 national finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir.
Stockton has taught at Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory and, along with her university's top teaching award, she has received the Equality Utah Allies Award for LGBT activism, the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize for Best Essay in Gay and Lesbian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah.
The first chapter of Stockton's book (2009), discusses the Rind et al. (1998) controversy, and argues that Stockton can be seen speaking about her theory of the queer child on Youtube, at
Selected Publications
- Kathryn Bond Stockton, “Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Queer Child: The Ghost, the Homosexual, the Freudian, the Innocent, and the Interval of Animal,” in Curiouser: On The Queerness of Children, eds. Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2004).
- Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press: Durham, 2009).
- Stockton, (2016). The Queer Child Now and Its Paradoxical Global Effects, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
See also
- Clifford J. Rosky. (2013). Fear of the Queer Child, 61 Buffalo Law Review. 607. - Useful article discussing the history of fear around "queer" children, discussing Stockton's work alongside David Halperin's and others, whilst conscious of the history of pederasty.
- Steven Angelides - fellow winner of the Crompton Noll Prize; both authors cite each other's work, and Stockton gave an endorsement printed on the back cover of Angelides' 2019 book The Fear of Child Sexuality : Young People, Sex, and Agency.
- Rachel Hope Cleves - Historian who mentions Stockton's work within wider debates around age-gap sex.