Kimberly Bain is the John Holmes Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tufts University. She joined the Department of English in 2020 after earning a Ph.D. in English and Interdisciplinary Humanistic Study from Princeton University. Bain’s most pressing intellectual interests have consolidated around questions of the history, theory, and philosophy of: diaspora, race, gender, postcolonialism, enslavement, flesh, environmental racism, resistance, embodiment, and subjection and subjecthood. She is at work on her first book manuscript, On Black Breath, as well as several essays on pettiness and dirt.