Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Her books include 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 Social Upheaval (W. W. Norton, 2019). In 2019 Hartman was named a MacArthur Fellow.