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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 (Duke University Press,
2010).
Curriculum Vitae
Please click here for Professor Sharpe's Curriculum Vitae.
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, (Duke University Press, 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'." Revisiting Slave
Narratives / Les avatars contemporains
des récits d'esclaves, ed. Judith
Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier: Publications
de Montpellier III, 2005, France, 2005)
159-176.
- "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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