Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman ​is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She is the author of ​Scenes of subjection, ​Lose your mother​, and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. In her work, she theorizes on the ‘afterlife of slavery’, which describes the enduring presence of the racialized violence of slavery in contemporary life.