Books By Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, Cristina Rivera Garza - Author

The Alchemy Lecture is a partnership between York University and Knopf Canada, organized by Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York, CHRISTINA SHARPE. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being; Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects; and Ordinary Notes.

PHOEBE BOSWELL's work is held in collections including the British Museum, LACMA, RISD, the BFI's National Archive and the UK Government Art Collection. She was the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at the British School of Rome in 2019, and was Whitechapel Gallery's 2022 writer-in-residence. SAIDIYA HARTMAN is the author of three books, including Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. A MacArthur Fellow, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar, and is currently a professor at Columbia University. JANAINA OLIVEIRA is a professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro a