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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; Childrens 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
Hearty and Happy and with a Lively, Yeasty Soul: Feeling Right in Louisa May Alcotts The Candy Country (Women and Performance, January 2015)
A Forum on Form: Consider the Recipe, J19: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Literature. Fall 2013. 1.2, pp. 439-445
She Made the Table A Snare To Them: Domesticity, Diet and Postcoloniality in the Writings of Sylvester Graham. Gastronomica. Winter 2009. 9. 1, pp. 5060.
Everything Cept Eat Us: The Black Body as Edible Object in Antebellum U.S. Literature in Callaloo. Special Issue: Reading Callaloo, Eating Callaloo. 30.1, pp. 201-224
Approaches to Teaching Literary Food Studies. Journal of Food, Culture, and Society. Fall 2005. 8. 2, pp. 243-258.
Chapters
Queer of Color Critique in Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian American Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Eat, Sex, Race. In Unauthorized States: Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies, Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2014)
Historys Traces: Personal Narrative, Diaspora, and the Arab-Jew. Gender, Nation, Belonging: Arab/Arab-American Feminist Perspectives. Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, Rabab Abdulhadi, Nadine Naber, eds. (Syracuse University Press, 2011)
Journals
On The Visceral 20:4 and 21:1, GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Duke University Press. Double Issue. Durham, North Carolina. Co-editors: Kyla Wazana Tompkins (91做厙), Sharon Holland (Duke University) and Marcia Ochoa (University of California, Santa Cruz). Written pieces include Introduction for both issues, and Interview with David Findlay in 21:1.
Public Writing
Shortlist: Five Nineteenth-Century Books. New York Times Book Review. Forthcoming, 2015.
, Los Angeles Review of Books. March 16, 2015.
, Periscope: The Social Text Blog. Response to Lauren Berlants Cruel Optimism. 2013.
, From The Square, the New York University Press blog. August 14, 2012.
, Avidly. August 12, 2012.
, From The Square, New York University Press. July 30, 2012.
, 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, 91做厙, 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.