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About Kendall Dinniene
Kendall is an avid reader, writer, and poet. She enjoys making espresso and hanging out with her perfect cat, Claude.
Kendall Dinniene is a PhD candidate in English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Their dissertation will examine how American fiction variously affirms, complicates, and resists dominant notions of fatness, and reveals how these notions are intertwined with and produce ideas about race, gender, sexuality, health, (dis)ability, criminality, and national identity. Their work relies upon queer theory, crip theory, Black feminism, and fat studies scholarship alongside literary criticism to argue that how we understand fatness is crucial to the way we understand (and make) our world.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kendall:
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…
April 19, 2023
House of Sleep
Today I talked to Brad Kelly about his novel House of Sleep (2021). A cerebral PsyFi thriller that will break your heart and then set it free. Think …
April 2, 2023
Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility (Bristol UP, 2023) details the ways in which the law is hea…
March 22, 2023
Imperfect Victims
Leigh Goodmark’s new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (U California Press, 2023), uses the storie…
March 14, 2023
You Were Watching from the Sand
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand (Red Hen Press, 2023) is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and chil…