Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
110C Lind Hall
(612)626-7124
tinsl013@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English; African American and African Studies
Areas of Expertise
African Diaspora literature and theory; Caribbean literature and theory; postcolonial literature and culture; transnational feminist literature and theory; poetry and poetics; comparative queer literature and theory; métissage and comparative studies of race
Selected Publications
Thiefing Sugar: Reading Erotic Geographies of Caribbean Women Who Love Women, a recovery project that explores and theorizes the poetics and politics of decolonization in literary representations of Caribbean women who love women. Forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Desiring the Blue Lagoon: Sea Crossings and Fluid Identities in Caribbean Literature, a book in progress that analyzes constellations of racial, national, sexual, and gender identity in recent Caribbean fiction.
“Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Imagining the Middle Passage as Queer Borderwaters." GLQ: A Special Issue on Queer/Migration 14: 2/3 (forthcoming April 2008).
“What is a Uma?: Women Performing Gender and Sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname.” Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Circum-Caribbean. Ed. Faith Smith. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (forthcoming 2008).
“No Storm to Blow Me Over? Mapping Same-Sex Sexuality in the Other Americas.” Perspectives on the “Other America”: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Literature. Ed. Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff. London: Macmillan (forthcoming 2008)
“‘Rose is My Mama, Stanfaste is My Papa’: Hybrid Landscapes and Sexualities in Surinamese Women’s Oral Poetry.”Caribbean Literature and the Environment. Ed. Renee K. Gosson, George Handley, and Elizabeth De Loughrey. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
“Mati.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Ed. Anand Prahlad. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.
"Open Roses, Closed Gardens, and Invisible Women: queering the tropical garden in the poetry of Ida Salomon Faubert." Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme: Women and the Black Diaspora Vol 23.2 (Winter 2004).
"Mati and Mangoes: Metaphor and Theories of Woman-Woman
Desire in Joanna Werners' Amba: vrouw van het Surinaamse erf."
Janus at the Millennium:
Perspectives on Time in the Culture of the Netherlands. Ed. Johan P. Snapper and Thomas Shannon. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc., 2004.
Graduate Courses
Theorizing Currents, Practicing Fluidity: An Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
Undergraduate Courses
Strange Pasts and Twisted Histories: An Introduction to Global LGBT Literature
Fluid Identities: Postcolonial, Queer, and Postcolonial Queer Identity
Committed Literature in the Feminine: Postcolonial Theory and Third World Women’s Literature
Rewriting Colonial Fictions: British and Postcolonial Literature
Shadow Lines: (Dis)Locating Postcolonial Fictions
Introduction to Third World Literatures in English
Multicultural Literatures and Cultures
Post-Colonial Literatures