Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] She is trained in literary critique, and does work in Caribbean Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke University Press, 2010),[2] and Ezili′s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders (Duke University Press, 2018).[3] She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018-2019 school year.[4] Her latest work Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism (University of Texas Press, 2018) was published in November 2018.[5][6] It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism, which launched in Spring 2015.[7]

She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.[1]

References
  1. "UT Profile". UT. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. Reviews of Thiefing Sugar:
  3. Reviews of Ezili′s Mirrors:
  4. "WGS Announces 2018-19 Matthiessen Professor". wgs.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  5. Reviews of Beyoncé in Formation:
  6. "What does Beyoncé Feminism look like? The cover for 'Beyonce in Formation' offers clues". EW.com. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  7. "UT College of Liberal Arts:". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
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