Education:
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Ph.D., English, University of Washington
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M.A., Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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B.A., English and Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests:
Her primary areas of specialization are visual culture, critical race theory, and American literature and culture. She is working on a book project, Visual Literacy and the Making of Racial Sense, which examines how race acquired a visual feel through the aesthetic structuring of modern vision.
Publications and Current Projects:
- “The Skyscraper’s Unseeing Eyes: Louis Sullivan, Nella Larsen, and Racial Formalism,”American Literature 89.3 (September 2017): 439-462
- “Runaway Slave Portraiture, Aesthetic Judgment, and the Emergence of Racial Visuality,” article in progress
- Visual Literacy and the Making of Racial Sense, monograph in progress
Courses Taught:
- English 116: Perspectives on Film (Introduction to Film Studies)
- English 244: Literature and Culture (Literature in the World: Nation, Empire, and Racial Capitalism)
- English 302: Theory and Criticism (Introduction to Critical Theory: Undisciplining Literary Studies)
- English 328: Literature of Science Fiction and Fantasy (The Critical Race Theory of Speculative and Science Fiction)
- English 4/517 & Gender and Sexuality Studies 4/550: Advanced Studies in Critical Theory (Black and Chicana Feminisms: Politics, Philosophy, Aesthetics)
- English 4/569: Advanced Studies in American Literature (The Afterlives of Slavery in American Literature and Visual Culture)
Contact: sshon@nmsu.edu or visit Dr. Shon’s Personal Website