After Archives / Archives After - Mary Elizabeth Johnson Lecture Presents Christina Sharpe

This event is part of a two-day program that intersects artistic practice and theory to consider the ideas , methods, and desires of archival space as a site for creative production.

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). Sharpe will be reading from her third book, Ordinary Notes, which will be released later this Spring.