Tiana Reid
Assistant Professor
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 22144
Email: tareid@yorku.ca
Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University. Prior to her return to Toronto, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Brown University.
Her research and teaching interests include black feminist theory, diaspora, comparative literature, gender, labour, Marxism, and queer theory. Her current book project examines figurations of black women’s labors as sites of tension in literatures of the African diaspora.
Reid has published in scholarly journals, including American Quarterly, Feminist Formations, Theory & Event, and Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. In addition to her academic work, her writing has appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Paris Review, Canadian Art, Dissent, and The Nation.
A former editor at The New Inquiry and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism, she has also spent several years doing editorial work at academic journals, including Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism and Women & Performance.
Degrees
Ph.D., Columbia UniversityM.A., Columbia University
B.A., McGill University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate Studies- Langston Hughes Thesis Award for the Humanities, Columbia's Institute for Research in African American Studies -
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship -
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/EN2231 6.0 | A | African American Literature | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | AP/EN4402 3.0 | M | Late 20th-Century Black Poetics | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/EN2231 6.0 | A | African American Literature | SEMR |
Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University. Prior to her return to Toronto, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Brown University.
Her research and teaching interests include black feminist theory, diaspora, comparative literature, gender, labour, Marxism, and queer theory. Her current book project examines figurations of black women’s labors as sites of tension in literatures of the African diaspora.
Reid has published in scholarly journals, including American Quarterly, Feminist Formations, Theory & Event, and Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. In addition to her academic work, her writing has appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Paris Review, Canadian Art, Dissent, and The Nation.
A former editor at The New Inquiry and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism, she has also spent several years doing editorial work at academic journals, including Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism and Women & Performance.
Degrees
Ph.D., Columbia UniversityM.A., Columbia University
B.A., McGill University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesAwards
- Langston Hughes Thesis Award for the Humanities, Columbia's Institute for Research in African American Studies -
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship -
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/EN2231 6.0 | A | African American Literature | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | AP/EN4402 3.0 | M | Late 20th-Century Black Poetics | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/EN2231 6.0 | A | African American Literature | SEMR |
