Christina Sharpe (Zell Visiting Writers Series)

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke 2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke 2016). In the Wake was named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book Ordinary Notes was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).