Winton Cornerstone: The Future of Food Studies with KYLA WAZANA TOMPKINS

What questions animate food studies? What do the institutional dynamics of food studies work tell us about the nature of disciplines in the current moment? About the need of the university for “interdisciplinary” work? Join us for this roundtable lunchtime discussion. We will examine the field as a site of intellectual endeavor and also as an institutional presence.

Lunch will be provided by the Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts.

This conversation will be audio recorded for archival purposes. Video will not be recorded.

Space at this lunch is limited. If you reserve a seat but are later unable to attend, please send cancellations to Winton@umn.edu as soon as possible to release your spot for other guests.

"The Future of Food Studies" is part of Thinking Food: Justice, Boundaries & Borders with Kyla Wazana Tompkins, part of the Winton Chair Cornerstone Event Series. (Please visit http://z.umn.edu/ThinkingFoodCornerstone to learn more.) Over a series of events, Professor Tompkins will engage with members of the University and Twin Cities communities around questions of food, its meaning and the boundaries constructed around it, and the politics that maintain these separations.

Kyla Wazana Tompkins is associate professor of English and Gender Studies at Pomona College, where she teaches courses on 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers, Feminist Community Engagement, Literatures of US Imperialism, and Transnational Feminist Theory. A former food writer and restaurant critic, she writes about food, eating, sexuality, race, and 19th- and 20th-century literature, culture, film, and dance. Her 2012 book, Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century, received the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association and tied for the Best Book in Food Studies Award, presented by the Association for the Study of Food and Society.