Christina Sharpe
Writer and Professor
Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness, Being and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, and, most recently, Ordinary Notes, Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction. She is currently working on a monograph called Black. Still. Life. (Duke 2025).
One on One
In her new book Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe steps past conventions of academic scholarship and literary genre to explore public and private histories, Blackness, language, memory, and the power of art. In conversation with Gabrielle Hosein.In her new book Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe steps past conventions of academic scholarship and literary genre to explore public and private histories, Blackness, language, memory, and the power of art. In conversation with Gabrielle Hosein.
Quarrelling With History
How are conflicts and tensions of the present — from racism to war in the Middle East, xenophobia to climate change — rooted in injustices of the past? And what is the work of the creative imagination in envisioning better and more just futures? Christina Sharpe (In the Wake, Ordinary Notes), Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World), and Myriam J.A. Chancy (Harvesting Haiti) join the debate, moderated by D. Alissa TrotzHow are conflicts and tensions of the present — from racism to war in the Middle East, xenophobia to climate change — rooted in injustices of the past? And what is the work of the creative imagination in envisioning better and more just futures? Christina Sharpe (In the Wake, Ordinary Notes), Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World), and Myriam J.A. Chancy (Harvesting Haiti) join the debate, moderated by D. Alissa Trotz