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Kendall is an avid reader, writer, and poet. She enjoys making espresso and hanging out with her perfect cat, Claude. This summer, Kendall is a fellow with the LA Review of Books Summer Publishing Workshop and is attending Duke University's Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute.
Kendall Dinniene is a PhD candidate in English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Their dissertation excavates how American cultural production complicates and transforms dominant notions of fatness, revealing how these notions are intertwined with and produce ideas about race as well as gender, sexuality, health, and national identity. Their work relies upon queer theory, Black feminist theory, 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. Kendall's scholarship has appeared in Fat Studies: A Journal of Body Weight and Society and is forthcoming in Ethnic Studies Review.
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