Off Littorality (Shoal 1.0): Black Study Off the Shores of “the Black Body” -- talk by Tiffany King

Tiffany Lethabo King is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. King’s research interests include Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Diaspora Studies, and gender and sexuality. King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). 

In The Black Shoals, King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways.

Free and open to the public. Please email the BBQ+ organizers to RSVP.

This seminar series is sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.