Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies, Columbia University

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), Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019). She has published essays on photography, film and feminism. She has published several articles on slavery including “Venus in Two Acts” and “The Time of Slavery.”

Working Group Affiliations

Engendering the Archive, Project Director

Gender & The Global Slum, Project Director