Kate Thomas
Kate Thomas (D.Phil, Oxford University) teaches and writes about Nineteenth Century
British Literature and Culture, and Queer Studies. Thomas has particular interests in:
nineteenth century communication technologies; the history of sexuality; critical and
cultural theory; food studies. She recently completed a project on the postal system in
Victorian Britain, which relates the rise of communication networks to enfranchised and
sexual subjectives. She has also published on Victorian temporalities and queer theory in
SAQ and GLQ, and is working on a book of these topics entitled Lesbian
Immortalities. In addition, Thomas has been developing a research and teaching topic on
Victorian food culture. The book project, entitled Victorian Fat and Thin is on
food and class in the age of mechanical reproduction. The class is called "Eating
Culture" and it pays particular attention to the relationship of food to
nineteenth-century colonial and imperial discourse, analyzing how food both traces and
guides global networks of power, politics, and trade. Read about Kate at Bryn Mawr Now
Courses taught:
Victorian Media
Eating Culture
Victorian Literature and Culture
Here and Queer: Placing Sexuality
Food Revolutions
Lesbian Immortal