Point of View Gallery Talk: Tiana Reid

Experience art on your lunch break. Join the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) the first Wednesday of February, March, and April for a dynamic in-gallery conversation that will stem from the interests of our speaker and an artwork in the exhibition, Meleko Mokgosi: Imaging Imaginations, on view from January 20–June 10, 2023. This event is free and no registration is required.

The third speaker in this series is Tiana Reid, Assistant Professor, Department of English, York University.

Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University. Her research and teaching interests include black feminist theory, gender, and labour. Prior to her return to Toronto, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Brown University. She attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute, then McGill University, and earned her PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her essays and criticism have been published in American Quarterly, Artforum, BOMB, Dissent, Frieze, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, Theory & Event, and elsewhere. A former editor at The New Inquiry and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism, she has also spent several years doing editorial work at academic journals, including Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism and Women & Performance.