Christina Sharpe, “How A Girl Becomes a Ship” - 2/24

Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 4:30pm, MMH 1400

Part of Queer Beyond Repair, the Spring 2016 14th Annual Lecture Series in LGBT Studies http://wmst.umd.edu/queer

Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of two books: Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (forthcoming). Her most recent writings have appeared in The Black Scholar, Black Studies Papers, and American Literary History. She is currently working on a project provisionally titled Thinking Juxtapositionally.

Colloquium with Christina Sharpe (open to ALL)

Thursday, February 25, 2016, 11am-1pm, Key 2120

Can't attend Professor Sharpe's lecture Wed. February 24 at 4:30pm? Or, just want MORE! This event follow's Professor Sharpe’s talk from the previous day and is an opportunity for students and faculty to gather in a more intimate and informal setting for more extended discussion of the issues raised in the lecture. We hope you'll join us to continue the conversation around queer beyond repair–all are welcome!

SPONSORS

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

College of Arts and Humanities; The Graduate School; Office of Diversity & Inclusion; Office of Undergraduate Studies; School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Center for Literary and Comparative Studies; Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies; Department of Anthropology; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Sociology; Department of Women’s Studies; and the LGBT Equity Center

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Department of English