A man in a dark room wearing a plaid shirt standing in front of a robot statue and posing in a similarly statuesque manner.

Michael Stokes

Science Fiction, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Disability Studies, Horror, Affect

Office: C707 Wells Hall
Email: stokesm7@msu.edu
Website: stokesm7.msu.domains

Michael Dale Stokes is a scholar whose work engages with the complex entanglements of disability narratives, science fiction/horror, race, and culture. He is a PhD candidate at Michigan State University and co-founder of the HIVES Research Workshop and Speaker Series. His work focuses on the literary figure of the mutant in science fiction pulps, film, and comics between 1904 and 1964. Michael’s work has been published in The Museum of Science Fiction’s Journal of Science Fiction, The Journal of Analogue Game Studies, and the Science Fiction Research Association Review.