“Lisa Kingstone gives us the tools to navigate this thorny area across both recent history and contemporary culture. It is a forensically crafted masterclass of clarity.”
Gus Casely-Hayford, OBE, historian and curator

Lisa Simone Kingstone — Author and Essayist

Writing about mortality, race, identity and the subjects we avoid.

Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, featured on BBC Radio 4. A 2025 Rockower Award recipient for excellence in personal essay, she has recently completed a manuscript of linked essays, Exit, Stage Left, that explores how the living wrestle with dying. A retired literature professor from King’s College London, her work has appeared in Psyche and Lilith, among others.

Exit, Stage Left Stick Your Head Out the Window Fading Out Black and White

BBC Radio 4

Thinking Allowed, White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity

Racial ambiguity in America: Lisa Kingstone, Senior Teaching Fellow in Race and Identity at Kings College, London, asks what happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade. She’s joined by the writer, Bidisha. Also, what is meant by white privilege? Kalwant Bhopal, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, discusses her new study.