Kyla Tompkins – Pomona College Associate Professor of
English and Gender and Women’s Studies is the author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century, and her work explores the intersection of
aesthetics, biopolitics, race and matter. Her next book will be
called So Moved: Ferment, Jelly, Intoxication, Rot. Dr. Tompkins’
talk, “Against Food,” examines the interdisciplinary limits of
research into food and foodways.
For assistance related to a disability, contact Afton Thomas: afton@southernfoodways.org | 662-915-5993
Event posted by: cssc@olemiss.edu
Sponsored by: Southern Foodways Alliance, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
