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Kendall Dinniene

Overview

Kendall Dinniene (they/she) received their PhD in English from Southern Methodist University in 2025. Kendall's current book project, Fat Fictions: Racializing Narratives of Fatness in American Literature and Culture, argues that literature produced in the decades surrounding the so-called obesity epidemic plays a key role in the production of the fat body and its fraught relationship to gender and race. 

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations

Recent Scholarly Works

“A Sensual People, and Doomed”

Journal article Ethnic Studies Review · October 1, 2024 Fat studies scholar E. Cassandra Dame-Griff have carefully revealed that Latina/o/x bodies are routinely framed as excessive in their numbers, their assumed reproductive capacities, their overuse of supposedly “American” resources, and in the size ... Full text Cite

“My heart’s fine as long as my stomach’s not empty”: patriarchal horror, women’s excess, and fat liberation in Criminally Insane

Journal article Fat Studies · January 1, 2024 Slasher film Criminally Insane might be understood as one that capitalizes upon and perhaps even further entrenches existing societal anti-fatness in mid-century America. Its fat protagonist, Ethel, wields a butcher knife against those who constrain her ac ... Full text Cite
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External Links

https://kendalldinniene.com/