Critical Work
My critical work explores how literature, across genres and centuries, engages with systems of power, identity, and the cost of being human, with a particular focus on fantasy fiction and feminist theory.
Oppression and Resistance Within The Final Empire
Hurston’s Embodiment of the Harlem Renaissance
To Be Free: The Feminist Tragedy at the Heart of Machinal
Haints, History, and the Haunted City: Jemisin’s Post-Katrina Fantasy
Jacob and Bree Navigate Grief and Loss in YA Literature
Romanticism’s Fight Against Oppression
Structuralism, Feminist Theory, and The Necklace
Fiction
I am currently at work on a dark fantasy novel exploring identity, power, and the cost of becoming. Short fiction forthcoming.
Claire Tomasiak 