Christina Sharpe
Professor
Office: Vanier College, 217
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 33958
Email: cesharpe@yorku.ca
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
PhD, Cornell UniversityMA, Cornell University
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
- Nonfiction Finalist Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - 2017
- Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship - 2001
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | GS/SPTH6423 3.0 | A | Alchemy Lectures-Black/Indigenous Ideas | SEMR |
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
PhD, Cornell UniversityMA, Cornell University
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
Awards
- Nonfiction Finalist Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - 2017
- Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship - 2001
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | GS/SPTH6423 3.0 | A | Alchemy Lectures-Black/Indigenous Ideas | SEMR |
