Kristin Moriah is an Associate Professor of African American Literary Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center where she was the recipient of the Melvin Dixon Prize for the best dissertation in African American Studies. She is the most recent recipient of the Marie Tremaine Fellowship from the Bibliographic Society of Canada. Dr. Moriah was the 2022 recipient of the American Studies Association’s Yasuo Sakakibara Prize. She was a 2022 Visiting Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University Center for Black Digital Research. From 2021-2023 she was the co-director of the Black Studies Summer Institute, a joint initiative between Queen’s University and the University of Toronto which sought to advance Black Studies in Canada at the graduate level. She is the editor of Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first collection of scholarly essays about radical Black feminist editor and activist Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Pennsylvania Press 2025). Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, and the Harry Ransom Center. Her research and writing have appeared in American Quarterly, TDR, PAJ, Early American Literature, Theatre Research in Canada, Performance Matters and Sounding Out.

 

Katherine McKittrick, NourbeSe Philip, Kristin Moriah and Juliane Bitek in academic regalia.