Publications & Working Papers

Publications

Tatz, Erin. “Review of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being.” Theory & Event, vol. 25 no. 2, 2022, p. 498-501. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/tae.2022.0023.

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. doi: 10.1017/S0143814X23000375.

under review

Theorizing Political Unity Through the Anti-Empathic,” presented at APSA 2025.

Witnessing ‘Wrongful Imprisonment’: Carceral Aesthetics and the Biopolitics of Black Death“, winner of 2021 MotherBoard Writing Prize, The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women and Sexuality.

Working papers

“Strange(r) Fruit: White Aesthetic Consumption of Black Death”, single-author.