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, was published in 2023 (Knopf/FSG/Daunt). She recently published "The abacus of her eyelids," the critical introduction to Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand. She is working on three books: What Could a Vessel Be? (Knopf, Canada, FSG, USA, 2025) Black. Still. Life. (Duke UP, 2025) and To Have Been To the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.

Her work has appeared in many artist catalogues and in Frieze, Paris Review, Harpers, BOMB Magazine, The Funambulist, Artforum and Art in America.

Research Interests

• Finalist, National Book Awards, Nonfiction - 2023
• Shortlist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, Nonfiction - 2023
• Longlist, National Book Awards, Nonfiction - 2023
• Nonfiction Finalist Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - 2017
• Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship - 2001

Current Courses

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, was published in 2023 (Knopf/FSG/Daunt). She recently published "The abacus of her eyelids," the critical introduction to Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand. She is working on three books: What Could a Vessel Be? (Knopf, Canada, FSG, USA, 2025) Black. Still. Life. (Duke UP, 2025) and To Have Been To the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.

Her work has appeared in many artist catalogues and in Frieze, Paris Review, Harpers, BOMB Magazine, The Funambulist, Artforum and Art in America.

Degrees

Research Interests

Awards

• Finalist, National Book Awards, Nonfiction - 2023
• Shortlist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, Nonfiction - 2023
• Longlist, National Book Awards, Nonfiction - 2023
• Nonfiction Finalist Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - 2017
• Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship - 2001

Current Courses