Kimberly Takahata

Summary:

• Kimberly Takahata writes and teaches about early American literature and its intersection with Indigenous Studies. Her work examines how literary analysis can serve as a tool of anticolonial critique that navigates texts of settler colonialism and imperialism.

Education:

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• A.B., Brown University

Publications:

• "'Follow me, your guide': Poetic Empire in John Singleton's A General Description of the West-Indian Islands," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 49 (2020): 45-64.
• "A Caribbean Counter-Edition: Digital Grainger and the Breaking of James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane," archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis 4 (2020).
• Digital Grainger: An Online Edition of The Sugar-Cane

Areas of Interest:

• Early American literature
• Indigenous Studies
• History of race and racialization
• Eighteenth-century literature
• History of science
• Material studies

Course List:

• Fall22-ENG-1050-008 LitEx:Rac&EthnctyinAmerLit
• Fall22-ENG-5000-001 SrSem:Indigenous Atlantic