UB Department of Africana and American Studies presents
POSTPONED UNTIL THE FALL SEMESTER - Visiting Speaker Series - Christina Sharpe
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.
