Stephen Hickson

Graduate Research Assistant

Working-class studies, mass culture, gender and sexuality, labor studies

Stephen completed a BA with a self-designed, interdisciplinary major in Comparative Literature at Sewanee: The University of the South. He taught middle and high school literature in Georgia before pursuing an MA in English at Georgetown University. Stephen has also taught freshman-level rhetoric and composition courses at Northern Virginia Community College and Howard University.

Stephen is now a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. His current research interests include nineteenth-century transatlantic novels, working-class studies, graphic narrative representations of trauma, sociolinguistic theories of class coding, and developments of the taboo or the unspeakable in depictions of labor.

Courses Taught

HNRS 110: Principles of Research and Inquiry

HNRS 122: Reading the Arts (Graphic Novel as Literature)

HNRS 240: Reading the Past (Mass Culture Across Classes)

Education

MA in English, Georgetown University

BA in Comparative Literature, Sewanee: University of the South