Christina Sharpe
Christina Sharpe is a scholar of English literature and Black Studies.Her academic research focuses Black visual studies, Black queer studies, and mid-nineteenth century to contemporary African-American Literature and Culture.
She is the author of the books In the Wake: On Blackness and Being and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. From 1998 until 2018 she held various positions at Tufts University. She is currently a professor at York University's department of humanities in the newly-created Black Canadian Studies certificate program. Her forthcoming publications include a critical introduction to Collected Poems of Dionne Brand as well as a monograph: Black. Still. Life.Works (selection)
