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Christina Sharpe ______ Christina Sharpe ___________________________________________________________________________________ Professor, 311 East Hall, Dept. of English, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tufts University, Medford, MA Professor, Department of English (2017-) Associate Professor with tenure, Department of English (2005–2017) Assistant Professor, Department of English (1999–2005) Instructor, Department of English (1998–1999) Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Assistant Professor (1996–1998) EDUCATION ___________________________________________________________________________________ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Ph.D. English Language and Literature MA. English Language and Literature University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA BA. English and African American Studies University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (one semester) BOOKS ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, November 6). Reviews 2017. Transition: The Magazine of Africa and Diaspora, No 122, “In the Wake,” David Chariandy https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/transition.122.1.04?seq=1 - page_scan_tab_contents 2017. FAZ, Verena Leuken, February (in German) http://plus.faz.net/evr-editions/2017-02- 01/42251/315510.html 2016. Lambda Literary, http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/10/12/in-the-wake-on- blackness-and-being-by-christina-sharpe/ 2016. 4columns, http://4columns.org/black-hannah/in-the-wake-on-blackness-and-being 2016. Make Literary Magazine, http://makemag.com/in-the-wake/ 2016. Lit Hub, http://lithub.com/16-books-you-should-read-this-november/ Excerpt Reprinted 2017. The New Inquiry, excerpt of Chapter 4, The Weather, January. https://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-weather/ 2016. Lit Hub, Excerpt of Chapter 3, “The Hold,” “On the Violent Language of the Refugee Crisis,” November. http://lithub.com/on-the-violent-language-of-the-refugee-crisis/ Honors 2017. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Nominee, nonfiction. Hurston/Wright Legacy Award http://www.hurstonwright.org/ohn-lewis-haki-madhubuti-and-carla-hayden-to-receive-2017- legacy-awards/ 2017. Public Books’ Public Picks, Summer. http://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2017/ 2017. Intellectual Publics a public conversation with award winning novelist and poet John Keene at CUNY Graduate Center, February 6. http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/video/4721/?live=true 2017. The Barnard Center for Research on Women held a Salon in my honor: February 2. https://vimeo.com/203012536 2016. The Guardian, Best of 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/26/best- books-of-2016-part-one?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks 2016. Lit Hub One of 16 books you should read this November http://lithub.com/16-books-you- should-read-this-november/ 2016. Joshua Bennet, Poets and Writers, https://www.pw.org/writers_recommend/joshua_bennett 2016. Mask Magazine, Good Books for Bad Times, http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-escape- issue/life/good-books-for-bad-times 2016. The Walrus, best books of 2016 https://thewalrus.ca/the-best-books-of-2016/ 2016. Never Mind the Bollocks http://contemptorary.org/nevermind-the-bollocks/ 2010. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, August). Reviewed in: Elevate Difference; MC Reviews; Women’s Studies; The Southern Literary Journal; Kritikon Letterarum; Labour/ Le Travail; Callaloo. Oxford Art Journal; Feminist Review, Criticism. Excerpt Reprinted in Theories of Blackness: on Life and Death, ed. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (Cognella, San Diego, CA 2014), “Gayl Jones’ Corregidora and Reading the Days That Were Pages of Hysteria.” BOOK MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS ___________________________________________________________________________________ Thinking Juxtapositionally is a set of related essays that perform the theory and practice of thinking juxtapositionally; from reading the spectacle of Kara Walker’s first large-scale public project “A Subtlety Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant” alongside Marina Abramović’s retrospective and solo performance, “The Artist is Present”; to reading Sophie Calle’s “The First Time,” alongside Taryn Simon’s “Paperwork and the Will of Capital: An Account of Flora as Witness”; to Charles Gaines’ “Manifestos” (speeches and manifestos by Douglass, Malcom X, and others) alongside Melvin Edwards’ “Lynch Fragments” sculptures; to reading the Whitney Plantation alongside the National Museum of African American Culture in order to see what these two institutional spaces do in terms of framing, of making present, slavery and Black presence. Taking a cue from Alice Oswald’s Memorial and Dionne Brand’s Inventory, Refusing Necrotopia is a work of literary and cultural criticism that will excavate and imagine the ordinary lives of the Black dead from archives, newspaper accounts, photographs, and films across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Collected Poems (1982-2010) Dionne Brand. The critical introduction will trace Brand’s early work, her political engagements, her commitment to and experiments with form and shape, her place in relation to Diaspora, her influences, and the radical push of her poetics. Sharpe 2 ARTICLES IN PROGRESS ___________________________________________________________________________________ An essay on Daughters of the Dust for Brick: Literary Journal Interview in progress for LitHub INTERVIEWS ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2017. “What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy. Siddhartha Mitter interviews Christina Sharpe. Hyperallergic, March 25, 2017 http://hyperallergic.com/368012/what-does-it-mean-to-be-black-and-look-at-this-a-scholar- reflects-on-the-dana-schutz-controversy/ 2016. “What Exceeds the Hold?: An Interview with Christina Sharpe.” With Selamawit Terref. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. (April 12, 2016) http://www.rhizomes.net/issue29/terrefe.html ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, & ESSAYS ___________________________________________________________________________________ Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals & Invited Chapters in Edited Collections 2017. The Crook of Her Arm. Commissioned essay on artist Martine Syms for SFU Audain Gallery publication. 2016. Catalog Essay. Love Is the Message. Arthur Jafa, Love is the Message, the Message is Death, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, NY, November 12, 2016. 2015. Essay. “Three Scenes.” On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness, ed. Tryon Woods and P. Khalil Saucier. (Fall 2015; 7850 words). 2014. Essay. “Black Studies: In the Wake.” The Black Scholar, Special Issue, The Boundaries of Black Studies edited by Alexander Weheliye. (Summer 2014; 6029 words). 2014. Essay. ‘’The Lie at the Center of Everything.” Black Studies Papers. University of Bremen, (June 2014; 11609 words). http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/edocs/00103785-1.pdf 2012. Review Essay. Blackness, Sexuality, and Entertainment. American Literary History. (ALH 24.4, Winter 2012, 827-841; 5997 words). 2012. “Response to Jared Sexton’s “Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts” for Lateral (inaugural issue of on-line, peer reviewed E-journal of the Cultural Studies Association). (March 2012) http://lateral.culturalstudiesassociation.org/issue1/content/sharpe.html 2005. “Gayl Jones’ ‘Days that were Pages of Hysteria’.” Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des récits d’esclaves, ed. Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier: Publications de Montpellier III, 2005, France, 2005) 159–176. Sharpe 3 2003. “Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherríe Moraga’s Nationalist Articulations.” Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, ed. Lourdes Torres (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003) 240–257. 2000. “The Costs of Re-membering: What’s at Stake in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora,” African American Performance and Theatre History: A Critical Reader, eds. David Krasner and Harry Elam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 306–327. BOOK REVIEWS ACADEMIC AND POPULAR 2014. Black Life, Annotated. Review of Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City in The New Inquiry (3722 words) http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/black-life-annotated/ Further Reading: Black Life, Annotated. The New Inquiry http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/black-life-annotatedfurther-reading/ 2014. “Coming to Las Vegas.” A review of Chris Abani’s The Secret History of Las Vegas (1840 words) http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/coming-to-las-vegas/ 2013. Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. Journal of Southern History. (863 words) ONLINE ACADEMIC 2013. “The Romance of Precarity: on Beasts of the Southern Wild” with Jayna Brown Social Text blog (February) http://socialtextjournal.org/beasts-of-the-southern-wild-the-romance-of-precarity-i/ 2012. “Hearing the Tenor of the Vendler/Dove Conversation: Race, Listening, and the ‘Noise’ of Texts,” January 23. Sounding Out! Blog. http://soundstudiesblog.com/2012/01/23/hearing-the- tenor-of-the-vendlerdove-conversation-race-listening-and-the-noise-of-texts/
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