Tara M. Holman
Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Tara M. Holman received her bachelor’s degree in English and International Studies from Bryn Mawr College, and Ph.D. in English from Brown University, where she was an Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Holman writes and teaches about 20th- and 21st-century African American and Black Atlantic literature and culture, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality. Her research interests include black feminisms, race and aesthetics, visual culture studies, and queer performance studies.
Recent Courses Taught
Self-Articulation: Between Fiction and Autobiography
Passing Down: Slavery and Its Afterlives
Selected Publications
- “Presence to Possibility: Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs,” Mosaic, Special Issue: Black/Queer/Lit, Guest Edited by Mecca Jamillah Sullivan. Summer 2023.
Appointed to the Faculty
2025Educational Background
Ph.D., Brown University
B.A., Bryn Mawr College
