Kyla Tompkins
PhD
Department Chair
Professor
Interests
Queer Theory; Biopower; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Feminist Theory; Food Studies; Nineteenth Century United States; History of Race; Pedagogy; Taste and Aesthetics; History of the Senses
Education
- BA , York University
- MA, University of Toronto
- PhD, Stanford University
Selected Publications
- Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot (NYU Press 2024) — https://nyupress.org/9781479819225/deviant-matter/
- Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (Managing Editor, NYU Press 2021; Winner of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title) - https://nyupress.org/9781479808120/keywords-for-gender-and-sexuality-studies/
- Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century (NYU Press 2012; winner of the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) and the Best Book Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) - https://nyupress.org/9780814770030/racial-indigestion/
- “On Boba” - Los Angeles Review of Books, Winner of the James Beard award for Best Essay, 2023
Website: https://www.kylawazanatompkins.com/
Podcast: Co-Executive Producer of the Feminist Keywords Podcast