Erin Tatz

Visiting Assistant Professor
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights
tatze@lafayette.edu
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Degrees

  • Ph.D., Boston University
  • B.A., Occidental College

Research interests: Critical Race Studies, Carceral Studies, Affect Theory, Aesthetics, Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Queer Theory, Phenomenal Subjectivity

Selected Publications: 

Tatz, Erin. “Review of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being.” Theory & Event, vol. 25 no. 2, 2022, p. 498-501. Project MUSE

Tatz, Erin, Helen Bekele, Lauren Mattioli, and Spencer Piston. 2024. “The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform: An Analysis of Elite Rhetoric in Four Cities.” Journal of Public Policy 44(3): 459–83

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