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Expertise
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Work
Work
Books
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Winner, Lora Romero Prize for Best First Book in American Studies, 2013; Winner, Association for the Study of Food and Society Prize for Best Book, 2013.
Reviewed by: American Quarterly, Journal of American Studies; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; TDR: The Drama Review; Journal of American Culture; Children鈥檚 Literature Association Quarterly; Food and Foodways; Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture; Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies; Radical Teacher; and Food, Culture and Society.
Book Series
Book Series Editor, Ecologies of Consumption: Cultures of Food, Hunger and Appetite (New York University Press, 2012).
Articles
鈥溾楬earty and Happy and with a Lively, Yeasty Soul鈥: Feeling Right in Louisa May Alcott鈥檚 The Candy Country鈥 (Women and Performance, January 2015)
鈥淎 Forum on Form: Consider the Recipe,鈥 J19: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Literature. Fall 2013. 1.2, pp. 439-445
鈥溾楽he Made the Table A Snare To Them鈥: Domesticity, Diet and Postcoloniality in the Writings of Sylvester Graham.鈥 Gastronomica. Winter 2009. 9. 1, pp. 50鈥60.
鈥溾楨verything 鈥楥ept Eat Us鈥: The Black Body as Edible Object in Antebellum U.S. Literature鈥 in Callaloo. Special Issue: Reading Callaloo, Eating Callaloo. 30.1, pp. 201-224
鈥淎pproaches to Teaching Literary Food Studies.鈥 Journal of Food, Culture, and Society. Fall 2005. 8. 2, pp. 243-258.
Chapters
鈥淨ueer of Color Critique鈥 in Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian American Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
鈥淓at, Sex, Race.鈥 In Unauthorized States: Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies, Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2014)
鈥淗istory鈥檚 Traces: Personal Narrative, Diaspora, and the Arab-Jew.鈥 Gender, Nation, Belonging: Arab/Arab-American Feminist Perspectives. Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, Rabab Abdulhadi, Nadine Naber, eds. (Syracuse University Press, 2011)
Journals
鈥淥n The Visceral鈥 鈥 20:4 and 21:1, GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Duke University Press. Double Issue. Durham, North Carolina. Co-editors: Kyla Wazana Tompkins (麻豆影视), Sharon Holland (Duke University) and Marcia Ochoa (University of California, Santa Cruz). Written pieces include 鈥淚ntroduction鈥 for both issues, and 鈥淚nterview with David Findlay鈥 in 21:1.
Public Writing
鈥淪hortlist: Five Nineteenth-Century Books.鈥 New York Times Book Review. Forthcoming, 2015.
鈥,鈥 Los Angeles Review of Books. March 16, 2015.
鈥,鈥 Periscope: The Social Text Blog. Response to Lauren Berlant鈥檚 鈥淐ruel Optimism.鈥 2013.
鈥,鈥 From The Square, the New York University Press blog. August 14, 2012.
鈥,鈥 Avidly. August 12, 2012.
鈥,鈥 From The Square, New York University Press. July 30, 2012.
鈥,鈥 From The Square, New York University Press, April 30, 2012.
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2102-2013
Visiting Researcher, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2007-2008
Dorothy M. Steele Sabbatical Award, 麻豆影视, 2007-2008
National Endowment for the Humanities Sabbatical Grant, Internal Award, 2007-2008
Mellon Foundation Faculty Partnership Grant with Professor Amy Bentley of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University.