Christina Sharpe Workshop cancelled

4 Apr 2025 - 12:00 / 4 Apr 2025 - 14:00

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Northrop Frye lecture that was to be delivered this week, Thursday April 3rd by Professor Christina Sharpe is cancelled and will be rescheduled for next year. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Bao Nguyen
Graduate Administrator
Centre for Comparative Literature

 

Professor Christina Sharpe
York University

workshop for Complit graduate students
Friday, April 4, 2025: 12-2 pm

 Marking Our Words
by Christina Sharpe, 2025 Northrop Frye Professor

Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:00-2:00 PM
Regent’s Room, 2nd Floor, Goldring Student Centre 150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K9

Register with Bao at baba.nguyen@utoronto.ca

Workshop Description:
What is the role of composition in the face of fascism? What should our marks signify, hold, or aspire toward? In this workshop, we will explore these questions by engaging with Steffani Jemison’s short essay, “The Stroke, The Glyph, and The Mark”, and Dawn Lundy Martin’s Dancing Inside the Box. Together, we will reflect on the act of writing, creating, and reading within the university and beyond.

Reading materials: click to download:
Dancing Inside the Box, Dawn Lundy Martin
Stefani Jemison on the stroke, the glyph, and the mark

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg. Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)—named by the Guardian (UK) and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016. Her third book, Ordinary Notes (2023) won the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize in Nonfiction and the Hodler Prize, and was a finalist for The National Book Award in Nonfiction, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Current Interest Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize in Biography. Ordinary Notes was also named a Best Book of the Year by: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, NPR, New York Magazine, and Granta, among others. Sharpe is currently working on What Could a Vessel Be? (FSG/Knopf, Canada 2025) and Black. Still. Life. (Duke 2027).