Kristin Moriah is an Assistant Professor of English at Queen鈥檚 University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2022 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University Center for Black Digital Research and the Pennsylvania State Humanities Institute. She is the most recent recipient of the American Studies Association鈥檚 Yasuo Sakakibara prize and one of the inaugural recipients of the Queen鈥檚 University Black Scholars Excellence in Mentorship awards. Her writing can be found in American Quarterly, C Magazine, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches th茅芒trales au Canada and Canadian Theatre Review. She is is the editor of the first volume of scholarly essays about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, which will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024.
African American literature and culture; Black Studies; Sound Studies; Performance Studies
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
- 2023 鈥傗淧laying That Crystal Flute: Black Interventions in the Sonic Archives.鈥 American Quarterly, June 2023. (Invited)
- 2023 鈥傗淭hat Men Might Listen Earnestly to It: Hearing Blackness,鈥 English Studies in Canada/ESC 46.2鈥3. (June/September 2023): 33鈥37. (Invited)
- 2022 鈥傗淲hat Will We Do with All That Data?鈥 American Periodicals. (Invited Forum Introduction)
- 2021 鈥淥n the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes.鈥 Sound Acts special issue of Performance Matters 6.2. February 2021.
- 2020鈥傗傗淎 Rude Sound: Notes on Suck Teeth Composition,鈥 Sound and Performance special issue of Canadian Theatre Review 184. October 2020. (Invited)
- 2020 鈥 鈥淎 Greater Compass of Voice: Black Feminist Performance and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century North America.鈥 Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands special issue of Theatre Research in Canada 41.1, June 2020. pp. 20-38.
- 2015鈥傗傗淥ther People's Cabin's: German Inversions of Uncle Tom's Cabin.鈥 Lateral 4: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Island Lake, IL: The Cultural Studies Association.
- 2008鈥傗傗淚n the Shadow of the Negro: Race and Performance in Herman Melville鈥檚 Benito Cereno鈥. Peer English 3: pp. 37-52.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- 2023鈥傗傗淎nother Link to Life鈥: Black Feminist Geography, the Digital Humanities and in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.鈥 Teaching Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Ed. Lynn Domina. Modern Language Association (forthcoming).
- 2023鈥傗傗淔rom Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy: Interrogating Social Class, Race, Gender, and Nation on the Musical Stage,鈥 in The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre. Ed. Ryan Donovan and Laura MacDonald. (Invited)
- 2022鈥傗傗淪ounding Black Print Culture at the Edges of the Black Atlantic.鈥 New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture. Ed. Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden. Bloomsbury. (Invited)
- 2013鈥傗"I am Not a Race Man: Racial Uplift and the Post-Soul Aesthetic in Percival Everett鈥檚 I am Not Sidney Poitier鈥. Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity. Ed. Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine, Jean-Paul Rocchi. Palgrave McMillan: pp.221-236.
I am interested in supervising graduate students with strongly articulated research interests in Black Studies, Sound Studies, Performance Studies and African American Literature.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS
FELLOWSHIPS
- 2022 鈥傗傗傗傗傗傗侸ust Transformations Fellowship. The Center for Black Digital Research, Pennsylvania State University.
- 2022鈥傗傗傗傗傗傗 Visiting Scholar in Residence. Pennsylvania State University Humanities Institute.
- 2017-2018鈥傗 Helena Rubinstein Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art (declined)
- 2017-2018鈥傗 Emory University Rose Library Fellowship (declined)
- 2017-2018鈥傗 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities
- 2017 鈥傗傗傗傗傗 The New School Institute for Critical Social Inquiry Fellowship
GRANTS
- 2023鈥傗俀ueen鈥檚 University Faculty of Arts and Science Conference Fund, Grant
- 2023鈥傗係SHRC Institutional Grant, 成人大片
- 2021鈥傗係SHRC Insight Development Grant, Papers Worthy of Patronage,
- 2021鈥傗係SHRC Connection Grant [Co-Applicant], Black Studies Summer Seminar,
- 2020鈥傗侫rts and Science Dean鈥檚 EDI Grant, Queen鈥檚 University
- 2019鈥傗係SHRC Institutional Grant, Queen鈥檚 University
- 2018鈥傗侲xperiential Learning Hub Grant, Queen鈥檚 University
- 2018鈥傗俁esearch Initiation Grant, Queen鈥檚 University
- 2018鈥傗俁are Book School NEH-GBHI Scholarship, The University of Virginia
AWARDS & PRIZES
- 2023鈥傗侭lack Scholars Excellence in Mentoring Award, Queen鈥檚 University
- 2022鈥傗俌asuo Sakakibara Prize, American Studies Association
- 2022鈥傗侻ayor鈥檚 Arts Awards: Arts Champion Award (Skeleton Park Arts Festival), City of Kingston
- 2017鈥傗俆he Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African American Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center
In the News
On ASALH-TV鈥檚 In Retrospect and Prospect S2, E3 鈥#DigBlk: Black History in the Digital Sphere鈥 Dr. Moriah and Dr. Gabrielle Foreman and Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner, the co-directors of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State, discuss their ongoing research collaboration and partnership.
