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Mark Stern
Associate Professor of Educational Studies
american studies; urban studies; social theory; continental philosophy
Peer-Refereed Articles
Stern, M. (forthcoming). In a pickle: The pedagogical possibilities of fermentation. Food, Culture & Society.
Stern, M. (2019). On closings: Diners, porn theaters, and schools. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 41(2), 69-98.
Stern, M. & Carey, K.V. (2019). Good students & bad activists: The moral economy of campus unrest. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 17(1), 62-81.
Brown, A.E. & Stern, M. (2018). Teachers' work as women's work: Reflections on gender, activism, and solidarity in new teacher movements. Feminist Formations, 30(3), 172-197.
R穩os-Rojas, A. & Stern, M. (2018). Do undocumented aliens dream of neoliberal sheep?: Conditional DREAMing and decolonial imaginaries. Equity & Excellence in Education, 51(1), 92-106.
Stern, M. & Brown, A.E. (2016). Its 5:30. Im exhausted. And I have to go all the way to f*%#ing Fishtown.: New teacher movements, depression, and the fight for public education. The Urban Review, 48(2), 333-354.
Stern, M. (2015). Homonormativity, charternormativity, and processes of legitimation: Exploring the affective-spatio-temporal-fixed dimensions of marriage equality and charter schools. Berkeley Review of Education, 5(2), 171-196.
Hussain, K. & Stern, M. (2015). Lessons from the pen alongside the sword: School reform through the lens of the radical black press. Critical Education, 6(7), 25-43.
Stern, M. & Hussain, K. (2015). On the charter question: black Marxism and black nationalism. Race Ethnicity and Education, 18(1), 61-88.
Stern, M., Clonan, S., Jaffee, L., & Lee, A. (2015). The normative limits of choice: Charter schools, disability studies, and questions of inclusion. Educational Policy, 29(3), 448-477.
Stern. M. & Johnston, D.K. (2013). I want to do Teach For America, not become&紳莉莽梯;硃&紳莉莽梯;喧梗硃釵堯梗娶.&紳莉莽梯;Critical Education, 4(13), 1-27.
Stern, M. (2013). Bad teacher: What Race to the Top learned from the race to the bottom. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 11(3), 194-229.
Stern, M. (2012). Love in a time of global warming. Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 22(1), 47-68.
Stern, M. (2012). We cant build our dreams on suspicious minds: Neoliberalism, educational policy, and the feelings left over. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 12(5), 387-400.
Stern, M. (2012). Presence, absence, and the presently absent: Ethics and the pedagogical possibilities of photographs. Educational Studies, 48(2), 174-198.
Peer-Refereed Book Chapters
Stern, M. (forthcoming). Ordinary ingredients: Hosting as a pedagogical practice. In T.J. Brewer & C. Hayes (eds.), Food stories: Navigating the academy with cultural lessons from the kitchen. Myers Education Press.
Woolley, S. W. & Stern, M. (2020). Queering education: Killing-joy and nurturing-hope in a college classroom. In K. LaFollette & N. Santavicca (Eds.), Queer approaches: Emotion, expression, and communication in the classroom, 125-141. Information Age Publishing.
Stern, M. & Hussain, K. (2017). Big talk in the little city: Grassroots activism by and for the common/s. In A. Means, D. Ford, & G. Slater (Eds.), Educational commons in theory and practice: Global pedagogy and politics, 231-241. Palgrave Macmillan.
Hussain, K. & Stern, M. (2016). Lessons from the pen alongside the sword: School reform through the lens of the radical black press. In Z. Wubbena, D. Ford, & B. Porfilio (Eds.), News media and the neoliberal privatization of education: Reproduction and resistance, 191-212. Information Age Publishing. (Reprinted)
Stern, M. (2016). From sentimentalism to grief: Pedagogies of humanization in Waiting for Superman & The Wire. In T. Gaynor & J. Taliaferro (Eds.), Using HBO's The Wire to teach urban issues, 80-97. McFarland.
Journal Issues Edited
Stern, M & Gill, M. (forthcoming). Not your grandma's pickles. (Oh. No. Wait. They actually are. (Kinda.). [Special issue]. Food, Culture & Society.
Stern, M., Brown, A.E., & Hussain, K. (Eds.) (2016). Educate. Agitate. Organize.: New and not-so-new teacher movements [Special issue]. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 26.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles
Stern, M., Brown, A., & Hussain, K. (2016). Editors introduction: Educate. Agitate. Organize.: New and not-so-new teacher movements. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 26, 1-4.
Public Scholarship
Stern, M. (2019). Don't go chasin' _____falls. In N. Shepherd, C. Ernst, & D. Visser (Eds.), The walking seminar: Embodied research in emergent anthropocene landscapes, 54. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Anderson, B., Baptiste, A., Henke, C., Nemes, R., & Stern, M. (2016, September). Reflections on food in urban America. The Utica Phoenix, 8-9.
Stern, M. (2014, October 16). A plea for r-e-s-p-e-c-t. Philadelphia Daily News, 16.