About the Author

Christina Sharpe is an American writer and academic of literature and Black studies. She is currently a Professor in the department of humanities at York University, Canada, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University. Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016)