Kianna M. Middleton

Dr. Kianna M. Middleton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st century literary representations of Black disabled and queer individuals in African American fiction, alongside American medical literatures and archives. She is currently developing her first manuscript, which applies a Black feminist disability framework to critique ableist and racist intersex medical protocols from the post-World War II U.S. era. Her work bridges medical literature with intersex-led narratives from American Ethnic literatures.

• Education:
• BA: Colorado State University
• MA: Colorado State University
• MA: University of California, Berkeley
• PhD: University of California, Berkeley

Her research interests include Black feminist criticism, disability studies, and feminist science studies. She explores intersections of race, gender, and disability through interdisciplinary lenses, challenging systemic inequities in medical and literary frameworks.