Visiting Speaker Series

Professor of English Literature and Black Studies at York University

Christina Sharpe is a Writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.

She is the author of: "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" (Duke University Press, 2016)—named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—and "Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects" (Duke University Press, 2010). Her third book, "Ordinary Notes", will be published in 2023 (Knopf/FSG/Daunt). She recently completed "The abacus of her eyelids," the critical introduction to Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand. She is working on a monograph called Black. Still. Life.

She has recently published essays in Art in America; Alison Saar Of Aether and Earthe; Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America; Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America; and Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.