Ted Mason has been a member of the English Department at Kenyon College since 1989. He held prior teaching positions at the University of Virginia, Trinity College, and Mount Holyoke College. Prof. Mason teaches courses in African-American Literature and Culture, Modern Literature, and in Literary Theory. He is also an active participant in the African Diaspora Studies Concentration, frequently acting as director of the program. From 1999-2003 Prof. Mason was Kenyon's John B. McCoy-Bank One Distinguished Teaching Professor. His teaching interests coincide with his research interests. He is the author of several articles, reviews, and presentations on African-American literature, culture, and literary theory. During 2003 Professor Mason served as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. In 2008 Prof. Mason was elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an organization sponsored by the Modern Language Association. He served as ADE President in 2010. From 2012-2015 he will serve as a GLCA/Teagle Foundation Pedagogy Fellow.

Areas of Expertise

African-American literature and culture, narrative theory, literary and cultural theory

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University
A.B. Wesleyan University

Courses Taught

ENGL 103/104 Literature and Representation
ENGL 288 Introduction to African-American Literature
ENGL 378 Race in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
ENGL 388 Twentieth-Century African-American Women's Fiction
ENGL 388 African-American Literature, 1945-Present
ENGL 388 Imagining America in the Novel, 1900-1952
ENGL 391 From Cooper to Crae: U.S. Fiction in the 19th Century
ENGL 490 Richard Wright and Toni Morrison
ENGL 491 Ralph Ellison and His World
ENGL 497 Senior Honors
AAAS 388 Black British Cultural Studies