Kristin Moriah is an Associate Professor of African American Literary Studies at Queen鈥檚 University in Kingston, Ontario. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center where she was the recipient of the for the best dissertation in African American Studies. She is the most recent recipient of the . Dr. Moriah was the 2022 recipient of the American Studies Association鈥檚 . She was a 2022 Visiting Fellow . From 2021-2023 she was the co-director of the , a joint initiative between Queen鈥檚 University and the University of Toronto which sought to advance Black Studies in Canada at the graduate level. She is the editor of , the first collection of scholarly essays about radical Black feminist editor and activist Mary Ann Shadd Caryc鈥. 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.
African American literature and culture; Black Studies; Sound Studies; Performance Studies
Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
(Pennsylvania Press, 2025) published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
The volume focuses particularly on three main topics: Shadd Cary鈥檚 relationship to immigration, nation, and colonization; the Black creative and nation-building work that Shadd Cary has inspired; and contemporary research methodologies like digital humanities as they can be used to better understand Shadd Cary鈥檚 moment, impacts, and life. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary lens, the collection celebrates Shadd Cary鈥檚 cultural significance and intellectual contributions, as well as their reverberations in her time and in ours.
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.
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)
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
- 2024
- 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.
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
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
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.
