Saidiya Hartman

Readings and Reflections: An Evening with Saidiya Hartman
Tuesday, April 7th, 5:30 PM
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Saidiya Hartman, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, is a scholar of African American literature and cultural history. Her works—which include Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth- Century America, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and, most recently, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval— explore the afterlife of slavery in modern American society.