Racial Indigestion is a book about food, sex, race and how they all became intertwined in the nineteenth-century United States. It is my first book, and will be published on July 30, 2012, by New York University Press. Kyla Wazana Tompkins is an Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at Pomona College, and a former food writer and restaurant critic. I write about food, eating, sexuality, race and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, culture, film and dance.(New) Dates for Upcoming Talks
I will be giving talks about my book and presenting some new work at the following institutions this year. I’ll post details as I get them.
2013 Colby College, February 12.
2013 Bowdoin College, February 13.
2013 University of Pennsylvania Americanists Group. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 20.
2013 University of Maryland, American Studies. Baltimore, Maryland. March 8.
2013 College of William and Mary. Keynote address. Williamsburg, Virginia. March 14.
2013 Harvard University; Charles Warren Center. March 28.
2013 Simmons College, April 17.
2013 NYU and The New School Food Studies, co-sponsored. May 1.
2013 Stanford University. May 10.
2013 ACCUTE plenary address, Victoria, B.C. June 1-4.
2013 Washington University in Saint Louis, October 10-11.
