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About Kendall Dinniene
Kendall is originally from the Pacific Northwest and currently living in Dallas. Texas, where they are working on their first monograph, Fat Fictions: Racializing Narratives of Fatness in American Literature and Culture.
Kendall Dinniene is a Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow in English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. They research the racialization of body weight in contemporary multi-ethnic literature and film. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fat Studies, Ethnic Studies Review, and Studies in American Fiction.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kendall:
January 29, 2026
Breaking the World
Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation (Duke UP, 2026) takes Black speculative fiction as a central archive for understa…
November 19, 2025
Wrangling Pelicans
A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast. In 1775, Spanish King Car…
October 24, 2025
Black Flame
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame (Tor Nightfire, 2025) from the USA Today bestselling…
October 1, 2025
Replace the State
A practical call to action against oppression. Across the globe, millions of people have participated in protests and marches, donated to political gr…
September 8, 2025
Fat Studies
Fat Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2025) introduces the reading of fat bodies and the ways that Fat Studies, as a field, has responded to waves of id…
July 18, 2025
The Revolution Will Be Spotified
The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance (Lexington Books, 2024) investigates the rhetorical strategies present in m…
April 17, 2025
Mother Body
Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021) is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. …
March 22, 2025
The Child Gaze
The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2024) theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social crit…
December 25, 2024
How We Write Now
In How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow w…
December 24, 2024
Abolition Time
How can Black Atlantic literature challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship? Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice (U Mi…
November 2, 2024
Fragmentary Forms
Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to t…
September 7, 2024
Menace to the Future
In Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (Duke UP, 2024), Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability inst…
June 25, 2024
Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction
In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2024), Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human mons…
June 22, 2024
Housemates
Today I talked to Emma Copley Eisenberg's novel Housemates (Hogarth, 2024). After Bernie’s former photography professor, the renowned yet tarnished D…
May 5, 2024
Cuckoo
Today I talked to Gretchen Felker-Martin about Cuckoo (Tor Nightfire, 2024). From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vi…
May 3, 2024
The Editor
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—f…
March 20, 2024
Ugly White People
White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And w…
November 25, 2023
The Feeling of Letting Die
In The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2023), Jennifer MacLure explores how Victorian novels depict the f…
August 27, 2023
Engage and Evade
Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigran…
July 16, 2023
Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconn…
June 10, 2023
Necropolis
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the …
May 28, 2023
Martha Moody
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction, Susan Stinson's Martha Moody (Small Beer Press, 2020) is a speculative western that follows Amanda, …
May 8, 2023
Between Heaven and Russia
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthod…
May 7, 2023
Fire Island
A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century F…