Preston Stone, Ph.D.

Dr. Preston Taylor Stone (he/they) is a queer-crip scholar of transnational American studies, comparative ethnic studies, and queer studies. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Studies in American Fiction and the Journal of Modern Literature. They are the Helaine B. Allen and Cynthia L. Berenson Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. He holds a Ph.D. in English from University of Miami, after which he has taught at Stanford University, UC Davis, and Santa Clara University. Their current empirical and theoretical work intersects Critical AI and Queer AI to demonstrate how queer theory and ethnic studies offer imperative correctives to the hegemony of extractive white, Western epistemologies that dominate both the infrastructural and economic development of GAI.