Please join the department of English and Creative Writing for the Annual Black Life and Letters Lecture Series in Honor of William W. Cook. The evening will feature a reading and talk by Professor Christina Sharpe.

Christina Sharpe is a writer and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016—named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award), Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010) and, Ordinary Notes (Knopf/FSG/Daunt, 2023—nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award). She is also working on a monograph called Black. Still. Life.