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Author: Eleanor Morgan

Mapping Emergent Scholarship: Investigating the Interdisciplinary Field of Fat Studies

This paper and corresponding mapping project seeks to illuminate institutional and geographic trends of the academic field of Fat Studies. As an emerging interdisciplinary field, fat studies exists on the fringes of the academy, and there has been limited investigation of the scholarly landscape of the field, both conceptual and physical. Using the corpus of the eponymous journal Fat Studies…