Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is trained in literary critique, and does work in Caribbean Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke University Press, 2010), and Ezili′s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders (Duke University Press, 2018). She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018-2019 school year. Her latest work Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism (University of Texas Press, 2018) was published in November 2018. It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism, which launched in Spring 2015.

She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.