Transatlantic Series: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, "Race and the Queer History of Eating in the Nineteenth Century"
Transatlantic Series: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, "Race and the Queer History of Eating in the Nineteenth Century"
Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College. She is also former coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies Program (2007-2009, 2011-2012). She received her doctorate at Stanford University in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature in 2004, her MA in English at the University of Toronto and her BA at York University. She is the recipient of fellowships and funding from the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University, the Mellon Foundation, the NEH, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. She has also been a visiting scholar and dissertation fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
Her book, Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century was published in 2012 by NYU Press and she is currently co-editor of an upcoming issue of GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly entitled On The Visceral. Her writing has appeared in Callaloo, Gastronomica, and the Journal of Food Culture and Society and is forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Literature, J19, and in the collection On Moving Ground, edited by Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson. Her second book is entitled So Moved: Time, Form, Gesture.
Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College. She is also former coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies Program (2007-2009, 2011-2012). She received her doctorate at Stanford University in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature in 2004, her MA in English at the University of Toronto and her BA at York University. She is the recipient of fellowships and funding from the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University, the Mellon Foundation, the NEH, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. She has also been a visiting scholar and dissertation fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
Her book, Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century was published in 2012 by NYU Press and she is currently co-editor of an upcoming issue of GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly entitled On The Visceral. Her writing has appeared in Callaloo, Gastronomica, and the Journal of Food Culture and Society and is forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Literature, J19, and in the collection On Moving Ground, edited by Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson. Her second book is entitled So Moved: Time, Form, Gesture.
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