Christina Sharpe

Education
Ph.D., Cornell University
MA, Cornell University
BA, University of Pennsylvania

Biography
Before coming to Tufts in 1998 I was an assistant professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

In 2001 – 2002 I received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and in fall 2002 I received a Tufts Junior Faculty research semester, both of which helped me work on the manuscript of my book, Monstrous Intimacies, forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Research Interests

• Black Cultural Studies
• Visual Arts – particularly African and African Diaspora (Kara Walker, Robert Colescott, Isaac Julien, Tracey Rose, etc.)
• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century African American Literature and Culture
• Comparative Studies of Twentieth-century Multi-Ethnic Literatures and film

Courses Taught

• English 20 Black World Literature
• English 155 American Women Writers
• English 69 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
• English 161 Memory for Forgetting (Holocaust and North American Slavery)
• English 291and 191 "Home is Where the Hatred Is"
• English 192/AM 16 (Un)Making American Identities: Blacks and Asians in the U.S.

Publication Highlights

• Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post Slavery Subjects, forthcoming from Duke University Press (Fall 2009/Spring 2010)
• "Looking to Brand, Looking to the Door: Mapping Possibility, Refashioning Blackness & Desire," (with Kimberly Hébert). No Language is Neutral: A Conference on Dionne Brand, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Forthcoming 2009.
• "Gayl Jones' 'Days that were Pages of Hysteria.'" Proceedings from the conference Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III. (January 2005).
• "Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherríe Moraga's Nationalist Articulations." Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, Lourdes Torres ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003) 240-257.
• "The Costs of Re-membering: What's at Stake in Gayl Jones's Corregidora" African American Performance and Theatre History: A Critical Reader. David Krasner and Harry Elam, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 306-327.
• "Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles." Looking Forward, Looking Black (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, 1999) 40-44.

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