Rebecca Wanzo is Professor and Chair of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling and&nbsp;The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging.&nbsp;Her research interests include African American literature, history, and culture; theories of affect; popular culture (particularly the history of popular genre fiction and graphic storytelling in the U.S.); critical race theory; and feminist theory.

Rebecca Wanzo

<h4>Kyla Wazana Tompkins is the author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century, which won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero prize for best first book. She writes about food, sex, race, popular culture, and the 19th-century United States.</h4>

Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Brown Broads, White TV

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Kyla Wazana Tompkins is the author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century, which won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero prize for best first book. She writes about food, sex, race, popular culture, and the 19th-century United States.