Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
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Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] Previously she was an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.[2] She is trained in literary critique, and does work in Caribbean Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke University Press, 2010),[3] and Ezili′s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders (Duke University Press, 2018).[4] She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018–2019 school year.[5] Her latest work Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism (University of Texas Press, 2018) was published in November 2018.[6][7] It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism, which launched in Spring 2015.[8]
She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.[2]
