Guy Mark Foster

Assistant Professor of English

Spring 2012

  • James Baldwin (AFRS 319)
  • Introduction to LGBTQ Fiction (ENG 111)
Phone 798-4317
Title Assistant Professor
Department English
Work Location Massachusetts Hall
E-Mail gmfoster@bowdoin.edu
Guy Mark Foster - Bowdoin COllege

Fall 2011

  • African American Writers and the Short Story (AFRS 014)
  • Gay and Lesbian Studies (GLS 201)

Ph.D. Brown University, English Literature, 2003
M.A. Brown University, English, 1997
B.A. Wheaton College, Writing and Literature, 1994

Areas of Interest

20th Century American literature; African American Literature; Lesbian and Gay Literature; Interracial Narratives; Literary Memoirs; Queer Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory

Works in Progress

Book project: "Waking Up with the Enemy: Postwar African American Literature and the Ethics of Interracial Intimacy"

Publications

"African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin." A Companion to African American Literature. Ed. Gene Andrew Jarett, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.  (Access article in PDF)

"Looking Good: Neutralizing the Desiring (Black Male) Gaze in Alice Walker's Meridian."  Symbiosis 13.2 Special Issue October 2009. (Access article in PDF)

"Translating (Black) Queerness: Unpacking the Conceptual Linkages Between Racialized Masculinities, Consensual Sex, and the Practice of Torture." Souls 11.2 April 2009. (Access article in PDF)

"'Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?'" Re-mapping Interracial Desire in Octavia Butler's Kindred." African American Review 41.1 Spring 2007. (Access article in PDF)

 "How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire." Empowerment versus Oppression: 21st Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. Ed. Sally Goade, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.  (Access article in PDF)

 "Desire and the 'Big Black Sex Cop': Race and the Politics of Intimacy on HBO's Six Feet Under" (The New Queer Aesthetic on Television: Essays on Recent Programming, Eds. James Keller & Leslie Stratyner, McFarland Publishers, 2006)  (Access article in PDF)

Encyclopedia Entries: ZZ Packer and Robert Stepto. An Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Eds. Hans Ostrom and David Macey. Greenwood Press (forthcoming).

"Welcome to the Funhouse: Critical Theory and the 'Problem' of Interracial Sexuality." Review Essay of Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French (Duke UP, 1999), T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Radical Philosophy Review 2.2 (Winter, 1999): 10 pages.  (Access article in PDF)

"This Man and Me." Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in The Americas and Europe. Ed. Charles H. Rowell (CO: Westview Press, 1995), Fiction. (Access article in PDF)

Review of Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians: James Baldwin, Randall Kenan (Chelsea House Publishers, 1994). Lambda Book Report. March/April 1994.

Review of The Tranquil Lake of Love: Poems, Carl Cook (Vega Press, 1993). Lambda Book Report. September/October 1993.

"Legacy" and "Lasius Niger." Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS. Ed. B. Michael Hunter (NY: Other Countries Press, 1993), Fiction.

"The Book of Luke." Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men. Ed. Essex Hemphill (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991), Fiction.

"Immortally Yours." Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction. Ed. Charles Jurrist (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1988), Fiction.

Links

Common Hour: The Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture: "Race Traitors and Their Critics: Unmasking Interracial Anxiety in Octavia Butler's Kindred"

Academic Spotlight: "Romance Novels Explore Racial Boundaries"