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Saidiya V. Hartman
Professor
Columbia University
English & Comparative Literature, English Department |
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Biography
Title:
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
Specialization:
African American and American literature and cultural history; slavery; law and literature; and performance studies
B. A., Wesleyan University (1984);
Ph.D., Yale University (1992). Professor Hartman's major fields
of interest are African American and American literature and
cultural history, slavery, law and literature, and performance
studies. She is on the editorial board of Callaloo. She
has been a Fulbright, Rockefeller, Whitney Oates, and University
of California President's Fellow. She is the author of Scenes
of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth
Century America (Oxford University Press,1997) and Lose
Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar,Straus
and Giroux, 2007). She has published essays on photography,
film and feminism. She is beginning a new project on photography
and ethics. Saidiya Hartman website.
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