Kyla Tompkins

Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies

Education: B.A., York University; M.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Stanford University

Expertise: Cultural Theory; American Studies; Food Studies; Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature; Race and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century; Feminist Theory; Gender Theory; Race and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century; Queer Theory and Sexuality

With Pomona Since: 2004

Campus Phone: (909) 607-2817

Email: Kyla Tompkins

Office Hours: T 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., W 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Research Interests

American Studies, Food Studies, Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Critical Feminist Theory; Cultural Theory

Recent Courses

• ENGL106 PO 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers
• GWS 181 PO Feminist Community Engagement
• GWS 199 PO Ind Stdy: Gender/Women’s Studies
• ENGL100 PO Literatures of US Imperialism
• WMST180 PO Seminar in Feminist Theory
• ENGL170J PO Spec Topics American Literature
• ENGL198 PO Summer Reading & Research
• GWS 198 PO Summer Reading & Research
• GWS 180 PO Transnational Feminist Theory

Selected Publications

Books:

2012 – Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century (Forthcoming from New York University Press, Spring 2012)
http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=8449
racialindigestion.tumblr.com

Refereed Articles:

• 2009 – “‘She Made the Table A Snare To Them’: Domesticity, Diet and Postcoloniality in the Writings of Sylvester Graham.” Gastronomica.
• Winter 2009, Vol. 9, No. 1, Pages 50–60.  http://gastronomica.org/
• 2007 –  “‘Everything ‘Cept Eat Us’: The Black Body as Edible Object in Antebellum U.S. Literature” in Callaloo. Special Issue: Reading Callaloo, Eating Callaloo. Johns Hopkins University Press. Callaloo 30.1 (2007) 201-224 http://callaloo.tamu.edu/
• 2005 – “Approaches to Teaching Literary Food Studies.” Journal of Food, Culture, and Society. Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2005. 243-258. http://www.bergpublishers.com/?TabId=521