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Gen/Sex, Latitudes: Kyla Tompkins (Pomona)

  • Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)


On Thursday, April 23rd, from 5-6:30pm, Kyla Tompkins (Professor of English, Pomona College; Professor and Chair of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Buffalo) will join us in the Graduate Student Lounge (FBH 330). Professor Tompkins is a former food writer and restaurant critic and now specializes in 19th-century US literature with a continuing interest in the relationship between food and culture. She will be discussing sections from her most recent book Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and the Gen/Sex working group.

This event will be co-sponsored by the Latitudes and Gen/Sex Working Groups in the Department of English, and by the Program for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.