Kyla Wazana Tompkins Editor & Author

Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Pomona College. She is the author of our Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century (2012), which won the American Studies Association Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, and co-editor of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (2021). Her scholarly writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as The San Francisco Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, and Xtra Magazine