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Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.  She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class, University of Johannesburg, and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.  Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). Her third book Ordinary Notes will be published in Canada by Knopf. Her critical introduction to Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand will be published in fall 2022. She is working on two books: Black. Still. Life. (2025) and To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.